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C. V. Raman

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“There is no Heaven, no Swarga, no Hell, no rebirth, no reincarnation and no immortality. The only thing that is true is that a man is born, he lives and he dies. Therefore, he should live his life properly.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a public lecture at Bangalore in 1934, from
“If there is a God we must look for him in the Universe. If he is not there, he is not worth looking for. I am being looked upon in various quarters as an atheist, but I am not. The growing discoveries in the science of astronomy and physics seem to be further and further revelations of God. Mahatmaji, religions cannot unite. Science offers the best opportunity for a complete fellowship. All men of Science are brothers.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In conversation with Mahatma Gandhi and Gilbert Rahm in 1945, from
“Looking around and sizing the situation, it seems to me that the real danger before our country is the crushing down of individual freedom and initiative by the steamroller of government authority. Already we see indications of this in the . . . legislative measures having an expropriatory [sic] character and the passage of taxation and other bills calculated to kill private enterprise in the field of industrial development . . . Democracy without freedom for the individual is a sham and a delusion.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with the Indian Express on 15 August 1954.
“Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue? What makes diamond glitter! Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success can come to you by courageous Devotion to the task lying in front of you I can assert with out fear of contradiction that quality of the Indian mind is equal to the quality of any Teutonic, Nordic, or Anglo-Saxon mind. What we lack is perhaps courage, what we lack is driving force which takes one any where. 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 (1888–1970) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This is from his address to the young graduates in 1969 quoted in
“Man of science seeks to resolve the links between art, aesthetics, and the science. The man of science …seeks to resolve [nature’s] infinite complexities in to a few simple principles or elements of action which he calls the laws of nature. In doing this , like the exponents of other forms of art, subjects himself to a rigorous discipline, the rules of which he had laid down for himself and which he calls logic …. Science… Is a fusion of man’s aesthetic and intellectual functions devoted to the representations of nature. It is therefore the highest form of creative art.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the Nobel award was announced I saw it as a personal triumph, an achievement for me and my collaborators -- a recognition for a very remarkable discovery, for reaching the goal I had pursued for 7 years. But when I sat in that crowded hall and I saw the sea of western faces surrounding me, and I, the only Indian, in my turban and closed coat, it dawned on me that I was really representing my people and my country. I felt truly humble when I received the Prize from King Gustav; it was a moment of great emotion but I could restrain myself.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the occasion when the Nobel Prize was presented to Raman in 1930 by King Gustova in Stokholm.
“Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the occasion when the Nobel Prize was presented to Raman in 1930 by King Gustova in Stokholm. page=xv,
“Each textbook must contain as frontispiece a portrait of Gandhiji and there must be lessons containing the sermons of Gandhiji from Sabarmati to Birla House. This would be the best and the most potent way of offering homage to the memory of the world's greatest man and the Father of the Indian Nation, and is better than building memorials and erecting statues....His (Gandhiji's) teachings stressed the supreme virtue of the human spirit, utterly indestructible and unconquerable. India can never hope to find a place in the sun, unless it upholds the value of the human spirit.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the to run of grow a good institution without funds....I therefore will not put it as a condition that no government funds should be accepted by the Institute.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His statement to his fellow scientist before his death in 1970. Quoted in
“I have a feeling that if the women of India take to science and interest themselves in the progress and advance of science as well, they will achieve what even men have failed to do. Women have one quality--the quality of devotion. It is one of the most important passports to success in science. Let us therefore not imagine that intellect is a sole prerogative of males only in science.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored- up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Purposeful life needs an axis or hinge to which it is firmly fixed and yet around which it can freely revolve. As I see it, this axis or hinge has been, in my own case, strongly enough, not the love of science, not even the love of Nature but a certain abstract idealism or belief in the value of the human spirit and the virtue of human endeavour and achievement. The nearest point to which I can trace this source of idealism in my recollection of reading Edwin Arnold's great book, The Light of Asia. I remember being powerfully moved by the story of Siddhartah's great renunciation, of his search for truth and of his final enlightenment.”
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source