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 ZEWAILI do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.
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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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As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.
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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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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