“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“The three-pronged approach of curiosity, imagination, and persistence is the key to scientific discovery.”
“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.”
“The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.”
“We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.”
“It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.”
“Every great discovery begins with an idea, nurtured by the passion to delve deeper into the unknown.”