When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
C. V. RAMANAnd 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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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 is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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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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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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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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 is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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