Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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 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 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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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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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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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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 strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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 think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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