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.
C. V. RAMANWhen I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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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 strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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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 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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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