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.
AHMED ZEWAILThe fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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