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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.
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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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