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We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

Ahmed Zewail

We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
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For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
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Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don’t think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he’s the best.
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But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don’t know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.
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There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.
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There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can’t be too narrow on science.
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I don’t know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
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So, I’m an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it’s fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them.
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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint’s and things of that sort.
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We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

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We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

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