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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes

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

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: french
Birth: October 24, 1932 - May 18, 2007

Topics

Property Number Essential Fixed Area

I am the worst judge of my books.

I Am Judge Worst Books Am

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

Heart History You Know Infinite

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

Star Wanted Failed Huge Huge Star

I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.

Wall Much Rubber Once MGM Bumped

Silk scarves are my thing. I tie them to my handbag or thread them through belt loops or wear them in my hair. Never round my neck, though.

Michelle Dockery

Hair Never Through Thread Tie Neck

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

Want My Own Own Because Like Accent

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Time Long Long Time Say Comfortable

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Day Guitar End Of The Day End You

We forget that most questions in this world - the ones that really matter - are impossible to answer completely.

World Impossible Questions Forget

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

People True Imagine Woody

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.

Happy Be Happy Feel Tolerance See

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Bad Play Film Set Bad Guys Guys

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