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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

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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.
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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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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 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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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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, 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 feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
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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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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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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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