Surface Tension Quotes

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

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Why, if we're hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling?

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.

Bubbles are weird things. They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible. They're not what we think they are.

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

We thought we completely understood bubbles when we were kids. But we didn't. Bubbles are these amazing things. It's just that people aren't paying enough attention.

I enjoy the beauty of the bubble, they're fluid and yet they have these geometric shapes so they do surprising things - two spheres become a single sphere - it's what bubbles do.

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

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.

Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

Just by going fast enough, you can ride on water with a motorcycle.

The only thing bubbles care about is wet and dry.