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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.

Ahmed Zewail

I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Amount Country Feel Human Resource Talent Tremendous
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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Correct Country Interact Lecture Obviously Order People Science
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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Internet Journal Look Necessarily Relevant Right Student
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
AHMED ZEWAIL

Contradiction Devotion Enjoy Father Most People Perhaps Taught Valuable Work
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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Best Last Nobel People Secretary Singular Six Twenties
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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Build Doing Effort List Long Previous Scientist Work
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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Book Computer Expert Media Point Power Sort Thing Thinking Time Working
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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Able Architecture Biological Goal Molecular Structure Themselves Ultimate
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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Actually Book Discovery Many Quite Read Thinking Try Uncover
The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Determine Fastest Kilometre Molecular Possible Second Speed
I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Came Country Owe
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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Alone Book Creative Fashioned Moment Old Paper Piece Regard Thinking
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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Danger Knowing Narrow Really Science
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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Biological Complex Doe Science Thinking World
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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Doing Effort Excitement Focus Science Thing Two
We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Basketball Best Collective Effort Like Musician Player Science Work

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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