Andre Geim Quotes

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.