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.
C. V. RAMANThe sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
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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 seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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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 will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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 essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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