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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.

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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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 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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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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 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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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