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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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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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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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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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