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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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
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
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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Child Children Little Mean Realize Town Universe
I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Amount Country Feel Human Resource Talent Tremendous
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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Correct Country Interact Lecture Obviously Order People Science
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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Age Feel Nobel People Prize Probably Quite Strongly Unfortunately Use
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
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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Always Brillant Discovery Full Large Question Universe Young
I 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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Government Help Nobel Prize Number Reason Technology Thinking
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 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
I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Came Country Owe
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
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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Alone Book Creative Fashioned Moment Old Paper Piece Regard Thinking
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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Basketball Best Collective Effort Like Musician Player Science Work
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Basic Best Invest Mind Recruit Research

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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