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.
AHMED ZEWAILPerhaps 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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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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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 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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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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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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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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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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