I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.
I am proud of my work for my country.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
It is a dire need for our young scientists to be proficient in running and using their lab equipment rather than depending on their assistants or workers. Once they learn how to use every lab equipment, their scientific career is likely to progress smoothly.
There is a dire need to create awareness regarding proper and safe use of laboratory equipment among lab workers and assistants, since it not only affects the worker but the people attached to them.
Everybody kicks those who do not have a country of their own.
Without my services, Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it.
I am not a madman or a nut.
We have a safe and good command-and-control system. Nobody can take away any nuclear weapon from Pakistan.
We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.
When India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, I wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from Holland and offered my services for Pakistani nuclear programme.
I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone.
I am an innocent man, but I don't want to indulge in any controversy.
