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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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