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.
AHMED ZEWAILFor 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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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 think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I’m one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology.
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