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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

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No great importance is to be given to mere experience.

The development of the nation is intimately linked with understanding and application of science and technology by its people.

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

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

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.

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