81 Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.

In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.

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.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

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