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C. V. Raman
C. V. Raman
Indian Physicist
Born: Nov 7, 1888
Died: Nov 21, 1970
Great Light Me Science Will Work
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment. C. V. Raman
Work Hard Work Science Thinking Spent Independent Had Nobel Nobel Prize Got Equipment Prize Essence Hard Hardly
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you. C. V. Raman
Success Hope Me You Courage Women Men Men And Women Lose Before Young Lying Tell Would Only Come Like Devotion Courageous Task Front Young Men
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate. C. V. Raman
Science People Mother Will Become Otherwise All People Must Highbrow Participate Mother Tongue Which Teach Activity Tongue
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. Raman
Science Try Language Will Unnatural Immoral Spirit Facts Feel Miss Know Foreign Foreign Language Children Teach
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
Victory Will Entitled Nothing Our Sun Destiny Rightful Recognize Carry Spirit Civilization Arise Indomitable Proud Were Achieving Hold Place Which Us Planet Need
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. C. V. Raman
Me Class Old First Addressing Inquire Had He Attended Him Answer How Affirmative Junior Then Asked Really English Belonged
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood. C. V. Raman
Life Opportunity Later Adequate Finds Student Idealism Days Often Manhood Expression
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, 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. C. V. Raman
Water Light Degree Important Consider Earth Possess Astronomical Significance Three-Quarters Fact Observed Globe Surface Covered Begin Contribute Liquid May In Fact Realise Molecular Nearly
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government. C. V. Raman
Government Science Money Military Believe Pressures Possible Strongly Driven Industrial Accept As Far As Decided Cannot Far Reason Fundamental Why
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. C. V. Raman
Decision Brilliant Aid Took February Mercury Towards Obtained End Commercially Tubes Available Sealed Using Illumination
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 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces. C. V. Raman
Work Good Great College Translation Possessed Student Well Well Known Great Work Known Masterpieces Still His Sensations While Fortune English Good Fortune Tone Copy
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. C. V. Raman
Music Science Noise Air No Difference More Only More Or Less Percussion Open Instruments Known Makes Orchestra Essentially Difference Where Little Less European Large Tolerated
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta. C. V. Raman
Work Great Me Opportunities Will First Research Early Work Great City Has-Been City Entirely Date Soon Scientific Due Been Years Provided Did Aspirations Publication Suffer Early Extinction
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
Science Made Early Years Late Possible Indian Scientific Continue Cultivation Years Burning Aspirations Who Brightly Founding Dr Early Association

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