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

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.

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.

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely