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.
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.
More Ahmed Zewail Quotes
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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 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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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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I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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