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

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.

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.

Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.