We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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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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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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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The 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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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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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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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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