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.

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.

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.

Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

You can live a lifetime in two years.

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.

We know there is no progress in a straight line.

I dont really believe in regrets.