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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

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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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
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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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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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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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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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 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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Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that’s really not the way it worked.
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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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.
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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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