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

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.

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

I am a 'Light' seeker with a 'tude'!."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Things aren’t perfect. They are far, far from it, but they are getting there, and I wasn’t looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.

We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Live well. Love deep. Tomorrow, we die.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.