Top 18 Ahmed H. Zewail Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.

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#7. Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

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#12. You should have some time to think and that's very important.

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#13. 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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#14. 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. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

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#17. I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

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#18. 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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