The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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 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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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 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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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 Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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