It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
C. V. RAMANI 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.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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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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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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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 Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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