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.
AHMED ZEWAILI 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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Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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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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Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I’m one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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