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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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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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