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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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 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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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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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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.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

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