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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

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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 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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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 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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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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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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.
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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 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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

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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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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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