It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. RAMANThe Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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 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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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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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 must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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