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.
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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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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Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don’t think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he’s the best.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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