National Science Day 2025: Top 8 Inspirational Quotes by Dr. C.V. Raman
National Science Day 2025: Top 8 Inspirational Quotes by Dr. C.V. Raman
By Rajni Pandey | February 28, 2025
Here are his top 8 quotes by Dr. CV Raman, India’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist, that motivate and encourage curiosity, hard work, and scientific thinking.
“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.”
“It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”