Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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