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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

Ahmed Zewail

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
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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Course Effect Frozen Imagined Life Peace Something Statement
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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Down Mistake Nobel People Prediction Science Thinking
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 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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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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Child Children Little Mean Realize Town Universe
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
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
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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Doing Effort Excitement Focus Science Thing Two
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
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
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 think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I’m one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Amount Country Feel Human Resource Talent Tremendous
So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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Able Focusmeffort Hope Intention

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