De Gennes Quotes

#1. Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#2. I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#3. Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

Julian Barnes

#4. There is no thermometer for wants!

Phyllis Bottome

#5. Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

Ellie Goulding

#6. I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#7. I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.

Sean Mackin

#8. The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#9. Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#10. The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Ross Lovegrove

#11. The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

Agona Apell

#12. What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#13. I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

#14. When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

Ted Turner

#15. In the final analysis luck is more important than skill. But any Marine who relies on luck to accomplish his mission is a dead Marine.

David Sherman

#16. Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#17. Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. Oh for 'Shael's sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn't lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It's built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.

Brian Staveley