C. V. Raman Quotes

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

The people will perish if their scholars pass away.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

A library implies an act of faith.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

You get educated by traveling.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.