The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
C. V. RAMANIt has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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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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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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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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 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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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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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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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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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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