"You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff." - Richard Feynman

If you cannot explain it in simple terms, you don't understand it well enough.

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Joins 150-Year Celebrations of IACS, Birthplace of Raman Effect and India’s First Nobel Prize in Science.

At #Kolkata, it was a brush with history, visiting Asia’s oldest academic science research and teaching institute, “Indian Association for Cultivation of Science” #IACS, groomed by stalwart faculty like Sir CV Raman, Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Dr Saha , with patronage from Dr BC Roy. Currently celebrating 150 years of its existence, the institute has been part of India’s growth journey across three centuries and fetched India’s first Nobel Prize in Science for ‘Raman Effect’.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.

#OTD in 1897, British physicist J. J. Thomson presented his research on cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron. The announcement took place during an evening lecture at the Royal Institution in London. In 1906, he was awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics.

American scientist Harold Urey discovered heavy hydrogen in 1931 and named it deuterium from Greek deuteros which means "second", to denote the two particles composing the nucleus. He was awarded the 1934 #NobelPrize in Chemistry.

Data is cheap. Insight is expensive. Storytelling is priceless.

Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s.

Teaching a powerful tool for learning.

Learning is like peeling an onion— each layer reveals another layer, and occasionally, it makes you cry.

Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.

A memorable day.

When setting goals, we often focus on achieving milestones like a PhD, job, tenure, or promotion. Those are great goals but they’re not enough. We also need to think about: -Why we’re pursuing that goal -What specifically we need to do -The values we will follow as we work

It was a rejuvenating experience interacting with the bright and excited undergraduate students at the Department of Chemistry, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. It is reassuring to see that a few academic institutions in Kolkata are still taking science teaching (in particular, Chemistry) seriously and doing a very good job there.

Genius doesn’t come from knowing all the answers—it comes from embracing uncertainty and following where it leads.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.