When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANThe essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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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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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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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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 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 have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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