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.
C. V. RAMANI strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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