I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
C. V. RAMANIt will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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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 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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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