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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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 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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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.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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