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.
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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist 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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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