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.
AHMED ZEWAILI 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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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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