Andre Geim Quotes

#1. In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

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#2. Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!

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#3. When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

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#4. The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

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#5. Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

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#6. Better to be wrong than be boring.

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#7. I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.

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#8. What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

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#9. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

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#10. Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

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#11. The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

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#12. Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

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#13. The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

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#14. Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

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