When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANI strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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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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It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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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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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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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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