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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

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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Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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