Quotes from Ahmed H. Zewail

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.

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.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

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

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