Quotes by C. V. Raman - Page 1

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. Raman /
Opportunity
Adequate
Idealism
Manhood
Days
Often
Student
Finds
Later
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
C. V. Raman /
Constitution
Edifice
Hypothesis
Matter
Physics
Whole
Atomic
Fundamental
Molecular
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
C. V. Raman /
Destruction
India
Inferiority
Inferiority Complex
Needed
Spirit
Today
Complex
Developed
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Science
Facts
Foreign Language
Immoral
Teach
Unnatural
Try
Miss
Foreign
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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
Science
Equipment
Essence
Hard
Hard Work
Independent
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Thinking
Work Hard Work Thinking
Had
Work Science Hard Work
Got
Spent
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Knowledge
History
Science
Development
Natural
Phenomenon
Starting
Starting Point
Study
Been
Branch
Find
Often
Point
Some
The History Of
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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
Activity
Mother
Mother Tongue
Teach
Tongue
All People
Science People Will
Must
Highbrow
Otherwise
Participate
Which
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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 /
Courage
Women
Courageous
Devotion
Lying
Men And Women
Young
Like
Come
Me
Only
Before
Front
Would
Lose
Task
Tell
Young Men
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Available
Brilliant
Decision
February
Illumination
Mercury
Tubes
Aid
Commercially
Towards
Obtained
Sealed
Took
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Science
Association
Burning
Cultivation
Founding
Indian
Late
Years
Aspirations
Brightly
Possible
Dr
Early
Early Years
Scientific
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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 /
Air
Instruments
Orchestra
Percussion
Difference
Essentially
Large
More Or Less
No Difference
Tolerated
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Association
Gifted
Guidance
Reality
Students
Believed
Benefit
Derive
Working
Equally
Generally
Professor
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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 /
Affirmative
Class
Addressing
Asked
Attended
Belonged
Inquire
Junior
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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
Decided
Driven
Military
Reason
Money Government Believe
Accept
Why
As Far As
Possible
Far
Fundamental
Industrial
Pressures
Strongly
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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 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
C. V. Raman /
College
Fortune
Good Fortune
Great Work
Possessed
Sensations
Tone
Well Known
Work Good Great
English
Copy
Student
Masterpieces
Translation
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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?
C. V. Raman /
Encouraging
Example
Indian
University
Work World See
Original
Mr
Carrying
Friend
Finding
For Example
Societies
Recognized
Sign
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Becoming
Belief
Chemistry
Physics
Study
Theme
Activities
Carry
Deepest
Indeed
Led
Main
Problems
Seemed
Subject
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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 /
Inspiring
Branches
Indian
Study
Succession
Forth
Scholars
Stream
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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.
C. V. Raman /
Early Work
Extinction
Publication
Research
Work Great Me
Aspirations
Date
Due
Entirely
Work Great City
Great City
Opportunities
Provided
Scientific
Soon
Suffer
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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. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. Raman /
Opportunity
Blue
Europe
Molecules
Observing
Phenomenon
Sea
Summer
Unlikely
Water
Wonderful
Me
First
Gave
Origin
Owed
Seemed
Voyage
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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 /
Atmosphere
Blue
Importance
Late
Light
Lord
Sky
Sunlight
Theoretical
Fundamental
Gases
Molecular
Recognized
Result
Subject
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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 /
Covered
Earth
Important
Light
May
Significance
Surface
Water
Begin
Astronomical
Nearly
Consider
Degree
Observed
Fact
Globe
In Fact
Molecular
Possess
Realise
Three-Quarters
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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. 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 /
Covered
Doubt
Land
Moon
No Doubt
Planets
Surface
Water
Appear
Area
Feature
Globe
Noticeable
Observer
Shine
Situated
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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 /
Arise
Civilization
Destiny
Entitled
Indomitable
Proud
Spirit
Sun
Victory
Nothing
Achieving
Carry
Hold
Place
Recognize
Rightful
Which
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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. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
C. V. Raman /
Sympathy
Chemistry
Cooperation
Distinguished
Privilege
Research
Scientific Research
Education Work Experience
Chair
Colleague
Concerning
Count
Invariably
Pioneer
Ray
Scientific
Sir
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