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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

Ahmed Zewail

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

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