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.
AHMED ZEWAILThere 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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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