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.
Ahmed H. ZewailThere is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.
Ahmed H. ZewailThink about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
Ahmed H. ZewailI 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.
Ahmed H. Zewail