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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

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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.
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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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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 don’t know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and 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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Amount Country Feel Human Resource Talent Tremendous
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.
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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 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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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