I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
C. V. RAMANIt will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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We 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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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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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 whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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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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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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