Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
AHMED ZEWAILAs 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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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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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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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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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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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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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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