It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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 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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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 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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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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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 fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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 must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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