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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.

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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Atom Fundamental Guinness Moving Reason Time
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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Basketball Best Collective Effort Like Musician Player Science Work
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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Build Doing Effort List Long Previous Scientist Work
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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Ancient Christian Civilization Community Country Proud Religious Spectrum Unique
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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Danger Knowing Narrow Really Science
One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Book Enjoy Left Alone Most Thing
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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Always Brillant Discovery Full Large Question Universe Young
I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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Age Feel Nobel People Prize Probably Quite Strongly Unfortunately Use
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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Alone Book Creative Fashioned Moment Old Paper Piece Regard Thinking
Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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Able Architecture Biological Goal Molecular Structure Themselves Ultimate
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Basic Best Invest Mind Recruit Research
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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Government Hoping Ideal Interesting Promoting Something Technology
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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Child Children Little Mean Realize Town Universe
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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Correct Country Interact Lecture Obviously Order People Science
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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Came Done Everybody Mar Master Pain Science Somebody Think Thinking Time
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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Bang Big Evolving Human People Species Understand Way

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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