Pierre-gilles De Gennes Quotes

#1. In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Walter Lang

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

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#3. Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" -

J.K. Rowling

#4. The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.

Nicholas Samstag

#5. You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

August Wilson

#6. Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#7. This man could sell boats to desert dwellers just by standing there, looking pretty.

Kristen Callihan

#8. I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Shawn Johnson

#9. Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

Oscar Wilde

#10. When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Jodi Picoult

#11. 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

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

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

William Stanley Jevons

#16. How am I supposed to like myself if all these shitty things keep happening because I do them???

Allie Brosh

#17. Whatever you want to be, it is okay with me as long as you never forget to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#18. 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

#19. When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.

Eve Branson