You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
AHMED ZEWAILI 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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