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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.

Ahmed Zewail

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
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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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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 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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.
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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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