Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
AHMED ZEWAILWe don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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