Quotes from Gerald H. Pollack

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.

I want to reemphasize that we're not dealing with water at the molecular level; we're dealing with crowds of water molecules. We don't yet understand water molecules

The pursuit of simplicity seems to have largely evaporated from the scientific scene. In four decades of doing science, I have seen this noble culture yield to one less audacious and more pragmatic.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The water-bridge. A bridge made of water spans the gap between two water-filled beakers. What sustains the bridge?

The demonstration starts by filling the two beakers almost to their brims with water and then placing them side-by-side, lips touching. An electrode immersed in each beaker imposes a potential difference on the order of 10 kV.