This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
C. V. RAMANIt 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 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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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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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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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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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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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