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

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 molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

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

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 doing you see.

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

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 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.