We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
— Vikram SarabhaiQuoted in
Use itGS3: on industry-academia linkage; critique the ivory-tower culture in Indian research.
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Vikram Sarabhai quotes for UPSC
6 sourced quotes by Vikram Sarabhai on science, technology & innovation, economy, development & poverty, nation, unity & diversity, mind & self-awareness, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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The development of the nation is intimately linked with understanding and application of science and technology by its people.
— Vikram SarabhaiQuoted in "Vikram A. Sarabhai"
Use itGS3: open answer on S&T and development; Sarabhai's vision of people-centric science.
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 SarabhaiIn the post-Nehru era with his vision on “Television and Development” quoted in page xxv
Use itGS3/Essay: on leapfrogging development; innovation as India's shortcut past centuries-long industrialisation.
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 SarabhaiOn the issue of priority to internal development vis-a-vis external defense
Use itGS3: guns vs butter debate; balancing defence spending against welfare.
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 SarabhaiAt a time when there was crisis of considerable economic and political turmoil and when he was offered the chair of the Atomic Energy Commis
Use itGS3 internal security: link development deficit to internal threats like insurgency.
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
— Vikram SarabhaiQuoted in "Vikram A. Sarabhai"
Use itLife/Interview: on focus and calm amid chaos; staying composed under pressure.