Andre Geim Quotes

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I always do something that I've never done before.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.