30 Quotes by Ahmed H. Zewail

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

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 take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

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

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

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.