When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANThe whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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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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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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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