I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
C. V. RAMANIn 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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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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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 must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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