It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
C. V. RAMANAll 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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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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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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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 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 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 not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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