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.
AHMED ZEWAILAnd 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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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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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