Indian Scientist Quotes

C. V. Raman

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Homi J. Bhabha

M. S. Swaminathan

Jayant Narlikar

C. N. R. Rao

Vikram Sarabhai

You see, if E. O. Wilson says that Indian scientists should do taxonomy, now of course, someone will say that you are preventing them from doing the sort of high science that is done elsewhere. So it should not come from there, it should come from us. I think that we must recognize where we have the advantages and where we have the disadvantages.

Raghavendra Gadagkar

University of California at Berkley (UC Berkley) is one of the most outstanding universities, and the Chemistry Department there ranks first amongst the universities of the world in research performance. This department was established by G. N. Lewis, who is considered to be the father of modern chemistry.

The circumference of earth at equator is 40,000 km and by dividing it with 24 hours (earth completes its rotation in a day), it comes out to 1,667 km. This reverse phenomenon happened at 60 degrees latitude because their jet plane managed a speed of 833.5 km which is half of circumference of the earth.

Jayant Narlikar

The face of Nature as presented to us is infinitely varied, but to those who love her it is ever beautiful and interesting.

A national programme which would provide television to about 80% of India's population during the next ten years would be of great significance to national integration, for implementing schemes of economic and social development and for the stimulation and promotion of electronic industry. It is of particular significance for population living in isolated rural countries

Vikram Sarabhai

From its earliest days, science has been embedded in society, there has been a continuous learning process in society as a whole, based on day to day experiences and this can become the body of the knowledge from which applications and understanding have grown. … Everything on earth has to function in harmony as a system, and it is only in such a system that humanity can flourish.

Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon

One result of unimaginative, mechanistic thinking was that societies eventually ceased to burn people at the stake for witchcraft.

George Sudarshan

I know quite clearly what I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious of. I love the consciousness of life and I want as much of it as I can get. But the span of one's life is limited. What comes after death no one knows. Nor do I care. Since, therefore, I cannot increase the content of life by increasing its duration, I will increase it by increasing its intensity. Art, music, poetry and everything else … I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.

This elegant generalization is mathematically very appealing; but physics means facing facts. You should take up case by case.

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

Rabindra Mohapatra

Attempts to understand extragalactic objects and the universe by using the laws of physics lead to difficulties that have no parallel in the application of the laws of physics to systems of a more moderate scale.

Thanu Padmanabhan

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Land and water management should be given 'Number One' priority for achieving evergreen revolution. No less important is to achieve the utmost efficiency in investment as well as in the use of water.

M. S. Swaminathan

Doesn't it strike you as odd
That a commonplace fellow like Todd
Should spell if you please,
His name with two Ds.
When one is sufficient for God.

Of Alexander R. Todd