Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds..

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

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

I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources..

When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hop….

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. ….

I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it ….

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denomi….

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women mad….

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 this planet, earth wi….

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 t….

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

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 what's he d….

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels..

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 exciti….

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

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 time. It turns out all mol….

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….

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but ….

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….

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 n….