We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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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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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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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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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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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