There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can’t be too narrow on science.
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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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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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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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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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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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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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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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