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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.

Ahmed Zewail

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.
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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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We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.
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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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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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I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.
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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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 do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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 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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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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