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. ….

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 built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to….

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

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

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

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake..

When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love t….

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….

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….

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

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

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds..

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….

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, t….

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….

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….

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….