Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
From Ahmed Zewail
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
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