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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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 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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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