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.
C. V. RAMANWhen I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my 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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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