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.
AHMED ZEWAILThink 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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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.
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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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