There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.