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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

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 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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Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.
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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 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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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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