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 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.

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.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

If you have a fat brother or sister you might be American.

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.

Revolutions are not made for export.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.