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.
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
-
-
It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
C. V. RAMAN -
The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
C. V. RAMAN -
The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
C. V. RAMAN -
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
C. V. RAMAN -
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. RAMAN -
It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
C. V. RAMAN -
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
C. V. RAMAN -
And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
C. V. RAMAN -
It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. RAMAN -
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
C. V. RAMAN -
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.
C. V. RAMAN -
It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
C. V. RAMAN -
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.
C. V. RAMAN -
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
C. V. RAMAN -
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. RAMAN