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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

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.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.