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.
AHMED ZEWAILYou should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it’s fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them.
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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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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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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Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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