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.
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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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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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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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 is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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