We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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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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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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