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. 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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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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 has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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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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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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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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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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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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