This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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 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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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