When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. RAMANIn reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
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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, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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 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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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 seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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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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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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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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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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