Ahmed Zewail on computer
Ahmed Zewail39 quotes“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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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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail 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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