Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

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

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.

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

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

Fantasy is the only truth.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Water is essential to life! It's also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.