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.
AHMED ZEWAILOf 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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Syria 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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