C. V. Raman

When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to…

— C. V. Raman

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in…

— C. V. Raman

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by…

— C. V. Raman

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly…

— C. V. Raman

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

— C. V. Raman

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the…

— C. V. Raman

Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially…

— C. V. Raman

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

— 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…

— C. V. Raman

It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality,…

— C. V. Raman

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our…

— C. V. Raman

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the…

— C. V. Raman

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come…

— C. V. Raman

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible…

— C. V. Raman

I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts,…

— C. V. Raman

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B.…

— C. V. Raman

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I…

— C. V. Raman

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord…

— C. V. Raman

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English…

— C. V. Raman

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or…

— C. V. Raman

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr.…

— C. V. Raman

I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished…

— C. V. Raman

It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was…

— C. V. Raman

We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which…

— C. V. Raman

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

— C. V. Raman