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
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
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