The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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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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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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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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 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 have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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