Indian Physicist Quotes

C. V. Raman
Homi J. Bhabha
Jayant Narlikar
Vikram Sarabhai
George Sudarshan
Thanu Padmanabhan

The circumference of earth at equator is 40,000 km and by dividing it with 24 hours (earth completes its rotation in a day), it comes out to 1,667 km. This reverse phenomenon happened at 60 degrees latitude because their jet plane managed a speed of 833.5 km which is half of circumference of the earth.

Jayant Narlikar
Jayant Narlikar
The face of Nature as presented to us is infinitely varied, but to those who love her it is ever beautiful and interesting.

C. V. Raman
C. V. Raman
A national programme which would provide television to about 80% of India's population during the next ten years would be of great significance to national integration, for implementing schemes of economic and social development and for the stimulation and promotion of electronic industry. It is of particular significance for population living in isolated rural countries

Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Sarabhai
From its earliest days, science has been embedded in society, there has been a continuous learning process in society as a whole, based on day to day experiences and this can become the body of the knowledge from which applications and understanding have grown. … Everything on earth has to function in harmony as a system, and it is only in such a system that humanity can flourish.

One result of unimaginative, mechanistic thinking was that societies eventually ceased to burn people at the stake for witchcraft.

George Sudarshan
George Sudarshan
I know quite clearly what I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious of. I love the consciousness of life and I want as much of it as I can get. But the span of one's life is limited. What comes after death no one knows. Nor do I care. Since, therefore, I cannot increase the content of life by increasing its duration, I will increase it by increasing its intensity. Art, music, poetry and everything else … I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.

Homi J. Bhabha
Homi J. Bhabha
This elegant generalization is mathematically very appealing; but physics means facing facts. You should take up case by case.

Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

Attempts to understand extragalactic objects and the universe by using the laws of physics lead to difficulties that have no parallel in the application of the laws of physics to systems of a more moderate scale.

Thanu Padmanabhan
Thanu Padmanabhan