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.
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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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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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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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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