"There is not enough funding for basic..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam

“The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.”

“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”

“Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”

“Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.”

“Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.”

“Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958”

“If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.”

“Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.”

“I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.”