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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

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There is no Heaven, no Swarga, no Hell, no rebirth, no reincarnation and no immortality. The only thing that is true is that a man is born, he lives and he dies. Therefore, he should live his life properly.

The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.

Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.

Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles!
Why is the sea blue?
What makes diamond glitter!
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets

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