C. V. Raman Quotes

Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.

Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

Light refused increases darkness.

From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.