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. RAMANWhen I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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