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.
C. V. RAMANIt 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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
-
-
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.
C. V. RAMAN -
I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
C. V. RAMAN -
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
C. V. RAMAN -
It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. RAMAN -
This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
C. V. RAMAN -
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. RAMAN -
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.
C. V. RAMAN -
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
C. V. RAMAN -
The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
C. V. RAMAN -
Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. RAMAN -
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
C. V. RAMAN -
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.
C. V. RAMAN -
The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
C. V. RAMAN -
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
C. V. RAMAN -
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.
C. V. RAMAN