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. RAMANIt 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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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 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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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 reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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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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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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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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