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Ahmed Zewail Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: February 26, 1946 - August 2, 2016

Topics

Watching Years See Like Million

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Government Just Too Generally

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

John Sergeant Wise

Man Lost Difference Slave Practical

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

Age Character View Point Of View

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Good Honesty Performance Wonderful

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Miguel de Cervantes

World Sin Public Private

In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.

You Go Over Bar See Menu

I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

Life Walk Words Think Camera Cinema

You learn a lot about vital corporations through non-vital corporations.

Learn You Through Corporations Vital

People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.

Myself People Me Think Too Much Go

I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.

Me Church Little Buy Very Sold

You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.

Care Take Care You Him Take Guy

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Travel Boring Fiction Autobiography

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