Ahmed H. Zewail Quotes
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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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You should have some time to think and that's very important.
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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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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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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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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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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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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 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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.