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.

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

If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

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.

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.