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

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

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

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.

There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.

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.