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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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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Contradiction Devotion Enjoy Father Most People Perhaps Taught Valuable Work
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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Actually Book Discovery Many Quite Read Thinking Try Uncover
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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Achievement Knowing Laurel Love Reason Science Wanted
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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Academy Delighted Goal Group Lecture Nobel Now Pointed Quote Science Thought Work
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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Course Effect Frozen Imagined Life Peace Something Statement
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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Danger Knowing Narrow Really Science
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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Alone Book Creative Fashioned Moment Old Paper Piece Regard Thinking
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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Government Hoping Ideal Interesting Promoting Something Technology
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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Base Country Need Resource Science Tremendous
The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Determine Fastest Kilometre Molecular Possible Second Speed
I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Amount Country Feel Human Resource Talent Tremendous
I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Came Country Owe
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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Down Mistake Nobel People Prediction Science Thinking
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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Build Doing Effort List Long Previous Scientist Work
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Basic Best Invest Mind Recruit Research
One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Book Enjoy Left Alone Most Thing

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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