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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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 seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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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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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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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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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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