Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

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

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 physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.

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

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.

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 exciting to the new people.

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