15 Quotes by Andre Geim

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

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

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!

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.

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

Better to be wrong than be boring.