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.
AHMED ZEWAILI 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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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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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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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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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And the other thing also which I’m hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I’m sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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