We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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.
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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 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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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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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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 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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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