It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
C. V. RAMANI strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not 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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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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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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