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. RAMANI think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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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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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 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 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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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas 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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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