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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.

Ahmed Zewail

I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I’m sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.
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Adapte Concern Future Great Humanity Period Scientist Sure Way
The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Determine Fastest Kilometre Molecular Possible Second Speed
I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.
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Internet Journal Look Necessarily Relevant Right Student
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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Atom Fundamental Guinness Moving Reason Time
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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Age Feel Nobel People Prize Probably Quite Strongly Unfortunately Use
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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Academic Adviser Class Friend Made People Senior University Women
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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Always Brillant Discovery Full Large Question Universe Young
As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.
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Child Exam Family Good Health Help Immortal Limited Recognize Success Time
I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Came Country Owe
And the other thing also which I’m hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.
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Government Hoping Ideal Interesting Promoting Something Technology
One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Book Enjoy Left Alone Most Thing
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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Base Country Need Resource Science Tremendous
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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Alone Book Creative Fashioned Moment Old Paper Piece Regard Thinking
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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Bang Big Evolving Human People Species Understand Way
I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve.
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Academy Delighted Goal Group Lecture Nobel Now Pointed Quote Science Thought Work
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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Book Computer Expert Media Point Power Sort Thing Thinking Time Working

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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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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