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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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 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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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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 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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Perhaps 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 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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