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

~Andre Geim

Topics: Consequences Decades Generation Knowledge Lack New New Knowledge Next Next Generation Poorer Stagnation Than Will

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

~Andre Geim

Topics: Adventure Always Been Driven Human Human Progress Progress Sense Thinking Unconventional

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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

Topics: Bit Discoveries Even Friday Life Maybe Paid Professional Professional Life Random Refer Research Ridiculous Simple Something Supposed Weird Without You Your

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Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Dead Live Long

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

~Andre Geim

Topics: Either Experience Good Humor People Scientists Sense Sense Of Humor Very

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

~Andre Geim

Topics: Amazing Bulk Out Plane Properties Pulled Show Single

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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

Topics: About Also Best Bonds Extremely Finally Fundamental Important Important Things Number Physics Possible Quality Say Second Stems Strong Studying System Thing Things Three Which Would

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When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Animals Inventive People Quite Thinking

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Better to be wrong than be boring.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Better Boring Than Wrong

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The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

~Andre Geim

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Physicist

Born: October 21st, 1958

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