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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Ahmed Zewail

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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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I don’t know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
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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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Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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