It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. RAMANIt is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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 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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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