When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.