When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share
I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
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… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share
When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources. — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I'm sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does. — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
