Tag: Science
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Nehru’s Speech: Science and Humility
Speech of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Science Congress, Calcutta, January 14, 1957 I am coming here today from Hirakud where I performed or helped in the opening ceremony of a very magnificent piece of work of Indian engineers, the great Hirakud Dam. This, I am told, is the longest in the world. A day before…
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The Spirit of Science
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the opening of National Fuel Research Institute, Digwadih, Dhanbad, 22 April 1950. In the course of less than four months, we have put up, and declared open or rather wished to declare open three national laboratories*, and I suppose, before this year is out, some more national laboratories will also be…
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Science and Progress
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the foundation of the Palaeobotany Institute at Lucknow, 3 April 1949. Science, a scientific approach to problems and a scientific outlook, have to be developed if India has to progress in the modern world. Science is a search for truth. It is a rational method of looking at things in their…