Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

I can't help thinking that somewhere in the vast universe, there has to be something better than man - Has to be.

Nihilism is a subject for comedy.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.