Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

There was nothing I knew that would indicate that if we could do it [create an atomic bomb], they [the Germans] couldn’t do it. Therefore I thought it was very important to try and cooperate. I felt I should do it in order to protect civilization. …

By coordinating with international partners on scientific issues, we strengthen the U.S. scientific enterprise and promote the free exchange of ideas in other nations.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

The great scientist was offered the Presidency of the young state of Israel:] I am deeply moved ..., though also sad and abashed that it is impossible for me to accept this offer. Since all my life I have been dealing with the world of objects. I have neither the natural ability nor the experience necessary to deal with human beings and to carry out official functions.

Whenever you involve scientists with politicians there is a struggle.