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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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 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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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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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 seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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 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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