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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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 ZEWAIL

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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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