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.
C. V. RAMANIt is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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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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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 we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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 must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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