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

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

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 ….

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

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds..

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 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….

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..

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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 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….

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