We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
C. V. RAMANI 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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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 is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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 reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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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 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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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 seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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