Andre Geim Quotes

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

I don't study; I create.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.