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

Ahmed Zewail

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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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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