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.
C. V. RAMANWe must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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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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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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