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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science.
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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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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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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

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