It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
C. V. RAMANI would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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 is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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