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

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.

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.

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.

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 now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.