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“I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.”

Quote by Ahmed H. Zewail

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Ahmed H. Zewail

Ahmed H. Zewail was a renowned scientist, born on February 26, 1946, and passed away on August 2, 2016. He made significant breakthroughs in the fields of molecular dynamics and ultrafast chemistry, contributing greatly to the scientific community. more

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“I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.”

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“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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“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. 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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“There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. 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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“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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“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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Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“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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“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”

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“One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.”

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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. 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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Author:Ahmed H. Zewail