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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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I don’t know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
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