C. V. Raman Quotes



Best 30 Quotes by C. V. Raman

“A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.”

“All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially non-musical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.”

“Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.”

“I am the master of my failure. If I never fail how will I ever learn?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If someone judges you, they are wasting space in their mind. Best part, it’s their problem.”

“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.”

“Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?”

“It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.”

“It is not often that the idealism of student days finds an adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.”

“It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.”

“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.”

“It was poverty and the poor laboratories that gave me the determination to do the very best I could.”

“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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“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.”

“Success can come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.”

“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.”

“The essence of the scientific spirit is to realize what a wonderful world it is that we live in.”

“The real growth of a country was in the hearts, minds, bodies, and souls of young men and women of the country.”

“The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored-up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.”

“The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.”

“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.

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.”

“Treat me right and you will see the light. Treat me wrong and you will be gone!”

“We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can’t always choose who comes into your life but you can learn what lesson they teach you.”

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