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.
C. V. RAMANWe 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 has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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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 we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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