There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can’t be too narrow on science.
AHMED ZEWAILI 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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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 do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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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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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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