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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.

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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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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