“in my first American class—a freshman chemistry class during the 1969-70 academic year— they looked at me as though I was supposed to be their nurse because they were paying a stiff tuition. That's another concept I had to learn—… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
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 current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share
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 by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share
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
