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.
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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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 feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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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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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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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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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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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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So, I’m an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.
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