We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
C. V. RAMANIt seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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 Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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