It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
C. V. RAMANWhen I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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 would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist 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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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 seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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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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