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

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.

I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]