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 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.

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

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

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.

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

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

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

We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

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

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

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it.

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.