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.

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 that's really not the way it worked.

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

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 to help the young people get excited about science.

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

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.