Andre Geim Quotes

#1. 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.

Andre Geim

#2. Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Julia Roberts

#3. Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

Andre Geim

#4. 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.

Andre Geim

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

Andre Geim

#6. 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.

Andre Geim

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

Andre Geim

#8. 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.

Andre Geim

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

Andre Geim

#10. There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

Helen Wills

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

Andre Geim

#12. I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

Jack Carroll

#13. Better to be wrong than be boring.

Andre Geim

#14. 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.

Andre Geim

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

Andre Geim

#16. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.

Paulo Coelho

#17. I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

Angus T. Jones

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

Andre Geim

#19. 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!

Andre Geim