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

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!

From Andre Geim

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

From Andre Geim

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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When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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

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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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