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

Ahmed Zewail

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Came Country Owe
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
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
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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Danger Knowing Narrow Really Science
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
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
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
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
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Contradiction Devotion Enjoy Father Most People Perhaps Taught Valuable Work
I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.
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Build Doing Effort List Long Previous Scientist Work
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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Actually Book Discovery Many Quite Read Thinking Try Uncover
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
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
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
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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Basketball Contribute Player Scientist Think Thinking Variety Way
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
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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