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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.

Ahmed Zewail

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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 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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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