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Ahmed Zewail

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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Biological Complex Doe Science Thinking World
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
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
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
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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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Base Country Need Resource Science Tremendous
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
So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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Able Focusmeffort Hope Intention
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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Course Effect Frozen Imagined Life Peace Something Statement
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
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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Child Exam Family Good Health Help Immortal Limited Recognize Success Time
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
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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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Important Some Think Thinking Time
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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Academic Adviser Class Friend Made People Senior University Women
The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Determine Fastest Kilometre Molecular Possible Second Speed

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