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.
C. V. RAMANIt will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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It 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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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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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