I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.
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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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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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