Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
AHMED ZEWAILOf 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 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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
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When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.
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Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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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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When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.
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When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe.
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Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that’s really not the way it worked.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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