Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material – the implications are just unbelievable. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability – but was actually stagnation – in the Middle East. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
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. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions – and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
