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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 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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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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