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.
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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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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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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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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