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.
C. V. RAMANIt is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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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 is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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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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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 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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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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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