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.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of foundational support in pursuing scientific endeavors.
C. V. Raman credits Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar for establishing the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, which provided a crucial platform for scientific exploration and knowledge in India. This emphasizes how vital institutions and mentorship are in fostering the aspirations and potential of future scientists.
In practice
In a speech at a science conference to inspire young researchers.
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.
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then decide that everybody can potentially think their way to curing themselves or develop their own psycho-neuro-immune mechanisms for boosting cancer defenses.
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.
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