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For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Actually
Aid
East
Gave
Hoped
Middle
Middle East
Stability
Stagnation
Supported
West
Years
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From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Dawn
History
Laws
Nature
Science
Searching
Universe
Unknowns
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Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Civil
Country
Divided
Egypt
Growing
Growing Up
Liberal
Main
Never
Now
Parties
Political
Political Parties
Saw
Today
Two
Up
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Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Achievement
Based
Benefits
Bureaucracy
Education
Educational
Foster
Free
Funding
Higher
Higher Education
International
Least
Levels
National
Pride
Quality
Quantity
Receive
Reform
Should
Unnecessary
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Base
Correct
Egypt
Human
Human Resources
Just
Need
Resources
Science
Tremendous
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I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Am
Computers
Experts
I Am
Media
New
New Media
Sort
Things
Time
Working
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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.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Brotherhood
Egyptians
I Can
Know
Majority
Much
Muslim
People
Spectrum
Tell
Than
Think
Wider
You
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I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Among
Beyond
Classroom
Connections
Discovered
Far
Go
How
Ideas
Individuals
Language
Mind
New
Opens
Science
Truly
Universal
Universal Language
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I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Been
Birth
Carried
Citizenship
Commitment
Country
Dual
Egypt
Faculty
Graduate
Graduate School
Left
Never
Pennsylvania
School
University
Years
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I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Current
Discover
Excited
Find
General
Holding
Laboratory
Majority
Many
Market
Oversee
People
Positions
Prospects
Research
Scientists
Soon
Teach
Temporary
Unemployed
Young
Young People
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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.
~ Ahmed Zewail
About
Ages
Dark
Dark Ages
Egypt
Egyptian
Excited
Get
Getting
I Think
Importance
Only
Out
People
Science
Succeeded
Think
Way
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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.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Build
Democracy
Education
Egypt
Independence
Influence
Institutions
Me
Power
Prestige
Rather
Regain
Science
Science And Technology
Technology
Than
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In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Adapting
America
Between
Bridges
Building
Cultures
Discovered
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
Life
Melting
Melting Pot
Muslim
Muslim World
Pot
Potential
Power
Religions
Same
Science
Soft
World
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In addition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which is crucial to U.S. interests both domestically and in the Middle East, the U.S. has had and will continue to need Egypt's collaboration in the war on terrorism.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Addition
Between
Both
Collaboration
Continue
Crucial
East
Egypt
Had
Interests
Israel
Middle
Middle East
Need
Peace
Terrorism
Treaty
War
Which
Will
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In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Children
Education
Egypt
Every
Families
Family
Good
Good Education
Most
Regime
Schooling
Secure
Suffering
System
University
Want
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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
~ Ahmed Zewail
1960s
Constructing
Controlling
Dam
Electricity
High
Impact
Irrigation
Lived
National
Nile
Personally
President
Production
Project
Vision
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In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.
~ Ahmed Zewail
1970s
About
Capacity
Country
Culture
Discovery
Dynamic
Exciting
Foreign
Found
Great
Impressive
Innovation
Intellectual
Most
Much
Open
States
Student
Studying
Today
United
United States
Universities
Value
World
Young
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In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Clear
Conflict
East
Enforced
Found
Israeli-Palestinian
Middle
Middle East
Must
Never
Peace
Reached
Solution
Solving
Will
Without
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In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
~ Ahmed Zewail
America
Coca-Cola
Commonly
Global
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
McDonald
Movies
Popularity
Power
Reside
Soft
Starbucks
Thought
Today
World
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Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Education
Future
Investing
Research
Science
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