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.

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

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

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.

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

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

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

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.

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

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

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

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.

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

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.