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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

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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Came Done Everybody Mar Master Pain Science Somebody Think Thinking Time
You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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Important Some Think Thinking Time
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Basic Best Invest Mind Recruit Research
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
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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Academic Adviser Class Friend Made People Senior University Women
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
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 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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Internet Journal Look Necessarily Relevant Right Student
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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Achievement Knowing Laurel Love Reason Science Wanted
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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Atom Fundamental Guinness Moving Reason Time
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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Ancient Christian Civilization Community Country Proud Religious Spectrum Unique
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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Bang Big Evolving Human People Species Understand Way
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
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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Best Last Nobel People Secretary Singular Six Twenties
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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Able Architecture Biological Goal Molecular Structure Themselves Ultimate
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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Doing Effort Excitement Focus Science Thing Two

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