It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
C. V. RAMANWe must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
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And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
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