Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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.

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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 …

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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…

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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

- Ahmed H. Zewail

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

- Ahmed H. Zewail