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AHMED ZEWAILI 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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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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.
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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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