The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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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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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 have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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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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