What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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?
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
A teacher should have a creative mind.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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.
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
I love the sea.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
I'm not an expert on the arms race.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
