When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANIt 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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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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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 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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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