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Jagadish Chandra Bose
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“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have recently returned from an expedition to scientific societies of the West. Their members exhibited intense interest in delicate instruments of my invention which demonstrate the indivisible unity of all life. The Bose crescograph has the enormity of ten million magnifications. The microscope enlarges only a few thousand times; yet it brought vital impetus to biological science. The crescograph opens incalculable vistas.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. Come someday to my laboratory and see the unequivocable testimony of the crescograph.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have sought permanently to associate the advancement of knowledge with the widest possible civic and public diffusion of it; and this without any academic limitations, henceforth to all races and languages, to both men and women alike, and for all time coming.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ashoka’s emblem of the Amlaki will be seen on the cornices of the Institute, and towering above all is the symbol of thunderbolt. It was the RishiDadhichi, the pure and blameless, who offered his life that the divine weapon, the thunderbolt, might be fashioned out of his bones to smite evil and exalt righteousness. It is but half of the Amlaki that we can offer now. But the past shall be reborn in a yet nobler future. We stand here today and resume work tomorrow, so that by the efforts of our lives and our unshaken faith in the future we may all help to build the greater India yet to be.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They would be our worst enemy who would wish us to live only on the glories of the past and die off from the face of the earth in sheer passivity. By continuous achievement alone we can justify our great ancestry. We do not honour our ancestors by the false claim that they are omniscient and had nothing more to learn.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Capacity to endure through infinite transformation must be innate in that mighty civilization which has seen the intellectual culture of the Nile Valley of Assyria and of Babylon wax and wane and disappear, and which today gazes on the future with the same invincible faith with which it met the past.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing can be more vulgar or more untrue than the ignorant assertion that the world owes its progress of knowledge of any particular race. The whole world is interdependent and a constant stream of thought has throughout ages enriched the common heritage of mankind. It is the realization of this mutual interdependence that has kept the mighty fabric bound together and ensured the continuity of permanence of civilization.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Science] was a human heritage] belonging neither to the East or the West.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was educated at Cambridge. How admirable is the Western method of submitting all theory to scrupulous experimental verification! That procedure has gone hand in hand with the gift for introspection which is my Eastern heritage. Together they have enabled me to sunder the silences of natural realms long uncommunicative. The telltale charts of my crescograph 2 are evidence for the most skeptical that plants have a sensitive nervous system and a varied emotional life. Love, hate, joy, fear, pleasure, pain, excitability, r, and countless appropriate responses to stimuli are as universal in plants as in animals.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From his (Karna’s) low caste came rejection, came every disadvantage; but he always played and fought fair! So his life, though a series of disappointments and defeats to the very end – his slaying by Arjuna– appealed to me as a boy as the greatest of triumphs. I still think of the tournament where Arjuna had been victor, and then of Karna coming as a stranger to challenge him. Questioned of name and birth, he replies, “I am my own ancestor! You do not ask the might Ganges from which of its many springs it comes: its own flow justifies itself, so shall my deeds me! [Further he wrote :] Like that of my boyhood’s hero Karna, my life has been ever one of combat and must be to the last. It is not for man to complain of circumstances, but bravely to accept, to confront, and to dominate them.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not in matter but in thought, not in possessions nor even in attainments but in ideals, is to be found the seed of immortality. Not through material acquisition but in generous diffusion of ideas and ideals can the true empire of humanity be established. Thus to Asoka, to whom belonged this vast empire, bound by the inviolate seas, after he had tried to ransom the world by giving away to the utmost, there came a time when he had nothing more to give, except one half of an Amlaki fruit. This was his last possession, and his anguished cry was that since he had nothing more to give, let the half of the Amlaki be accepted as his final gift.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source