When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
C. V. RAMANWe 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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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 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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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 Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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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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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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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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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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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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