Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
AHMED ZEWAILEverybody 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.
More Ahmed Zewail Quotes
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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 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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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 don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
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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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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 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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