Vikram Sarabhai Quotes

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We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

Vikram Sarabhai
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.

Vikram Sarabhai
No great importance is to be given to mere experience.

Vikram Sarabhai
I would like to emphasize that security can be endangered not only from outside but also from within. If you do not maintain the rate of progress of the economic development of the nation. I would suggest that you would have the most serious crisis, something that would disintegrate India as we know it.

Vikram Sarabhai
So the real problem in this whole question relates to utilization of national resources for productive and social welfare against the burden of defense expenditure which a country can bear at any particular time.

Vikram Sarabhai
Our national goals involve leap-frogging from a state of economic backwardness and social disabilities attempting to achieve in a few decades a change which has incidentally taken centuries in other countries and in other lands. This involves innovative at all levels.

Vikram Sarabhai
One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

Vikram Sarabhai
There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose. We do not have the fantasy of competing with the economically advanced nations in the exploration of the moon or the planets or manned space-flight.

Vikram Sarabhai
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

Vikram Sarabhai
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