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.
AHMED ZEWAILWhen 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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I’m sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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