Abdus Salam Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms. — Abdus Salam

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. — Abdus Salam

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were erected, one in the West and one in the East; St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Between them, the two symbolize, perhaps better than words can describe, the comparative level of architectural technology, the comparative level of craftsmanship and the comparative level of affluence and sophistication the two cultures had attained at that epoch of history. But about the same time there was also created - and this time only in the West - a third monument, a monument still greater in its eventual import for humanity. This was Newton's Principia, published in 1687. Newton's work had no counterpart in the India of the Mughals. — Abdus Salam

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing. — Abdus Salam

I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I met Dr.Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad. — Abdus Salam

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power. — Abdus Salam

I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on. — Abdus Salam

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam

This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law. — Abdus Salam

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. — Abdus Salam

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it. — Abdus Salam

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly. — Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. — Abdus Salam

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. — Abdus Salam

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. — Abdus Salam

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think. — Abdus Salam