Ahmed Zewail Quotes
What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.
Zewail, Ahmed. Reflections on World Affairs: Peace and Politics. Imperial College Press, 2015.
The United States, since its inception has always had an empathy for other peoples who sought independence, but at the same time we had an early principle of isolationism and not getting involved with quarrels abroad. Also America was inhibited by other unrelated issues from assisting people seeking independence.
He was condemning a practice whereby some nations would have freedoms guaranteed by their constitutions or laws, but the totalitarian government would “suspend” the constitutional guarantees in times of “national emergencies.” Yew was in opposition at the time he made this famous statement. 30 years later when he was the Prime Minister, he had a different view. See {585201}.
This quotation of a very popular Muslim cleric illustrates the wide range of political views of Islamic leaders and authorities. Whereas most shun democracy as placing public opinion over the word of God, there are many like al-Qaradawi who have a modernist interpretation of Islam.
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
