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 ZEWAILSyria 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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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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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 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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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