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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
(30 Nov 1858 - 23 Nov 1937)
Indian physicist and plant physiologist who invented highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli. He also investigated very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy, and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials.
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Science Quotes by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (3 quotes)
It would be our worst enemy who would wish us to live only on the glories of the past and die off from the face of the earth in sheer passivity. By continuous achievement alone we can justify our great ancestry. We do not honour our ancestors by the false claim that they are omniscient and had nothing more to learn.
— Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
From 'Sir J.C. Bose’s Address', Benares Hindu University 1905-1935 (1936), 423. Collected in J. Lourdusamy, Science and National Consciousness in Bengal: 1870-1930 (2004), 106.
Knowledge is never the exclusive possession of any favoured race; the whole world is inter-dependent and a constant stream of thought had through ages enriched the common heritage of mankind.
— Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
From 'Sir J.C. Bose’s Address', Benares Hindu University 1905-1935 (1936), 423-424.
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
— Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Quoted in India Today (Apr 2008), 33, No 16, as cited on webpage of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology.
See also:
- 30 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bose's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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