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 ZEWAILI 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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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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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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.
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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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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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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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