We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
C. V. RAMANTowards 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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The 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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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