It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. RAMANIn 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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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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.
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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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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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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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