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.
C. V. RAMANIn reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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 strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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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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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 is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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