When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANThe Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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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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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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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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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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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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