Ahmed H. Zewail Quotes

• 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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Science, Knowing, Achievement

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

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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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  Father, People, Taught

  Ahmed Zewail (2004). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.17, American Univ in Cairo Press

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• Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Mind, Research, Recruit

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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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Thinking, Mars, Done

  Fuente: www.nobelprize.org

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

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Book, Enjoy, Left Alone

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

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Thinking, Should Have, 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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Pensar, Doe, Mundo

  Fuente: www.nobelprize.org

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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. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Children, Mean, Helping Others

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

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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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  Knowing, Danger

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

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Egipto

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• Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

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  Egypt, Needs, Resources

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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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  Book, Thinking, Discovery

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• Todavía no entendemos cómo el big bang y la evolución de todo el camino a la especie humana y así sucesivamente. Así que todo esto va a ser muy, muy emocionante para la gente nueva.

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  People, Bangs, Way

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

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  Two, Focus, Effort

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• 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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  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Mistake, Thinking, Predictions

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• Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Christian, Religious, Unique

  "Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  People, Age, Use

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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. 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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  Lasts, Six, Twenties

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• Si quieres, hay un tiempo Guinness. La razón es fundamental. No es que tengamos que ir acortando el tiempo. Resulta que todos los sistemas moleculares y biológicos tienen velocidades de los átomos se mueven dentro de ellos, las velocidades más rápidas posibles están determinadas por sus vibraciones moleculares y esta velocidad es de alrededor de un kilómetro por segundo.

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  Moving, Atoms, Fundamentals

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• 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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  Long, Effort, Lists

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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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  Book, Thinking, Media

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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.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Technology, Thinking, Government

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

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Egypt, Talent, Resources

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• Creo que en mi discurso del Nobel señalé que estaba encantado de que la Academia Sueca de Ciencias no citara nada sobre mi trabajo actual en este momento, porque el trabajo actual en el que mi grupo se está centrando es en realidad tanto la resolución temporal de electrones como posiblemente rayos X para poder obtener la arquitectura de estas moléculas, las estructuras moleculares en sí, de sistemas biológicos muy complejos. Ese es el objetivo final.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Goal, Rays, Groups

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