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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 built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.
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Build Doing Effort List Long Previous Scientist Work
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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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
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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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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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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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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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