Top 76 Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

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 can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.