Quotes from Tom Noddy

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

I didn't want to go out at night and spend my money in bars and stuff like that, so when I came home at night, I just wanted to entertain myself.

I walked the rainbow trail for a good number of years.

If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.

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 love to make a living from blowing bubbles.

I had this memory of being with my aunt, who I loved, you know, and watching her blow some bubbles in sunlight, and my heart fluttered when I watched her.

I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.

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.

It's an electrical network, isn't it? It's molecules in space... and they're linked to each other electrically. Which is to say, one end of a soap molecule is attracted to a nearby water molecule electrically. The bubble is this network. The whole thing is inter-dependent.

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.

There is a lot of science in bubbles. They are just like our weather system. The earth is, in effect, trapped inside a liquid sphere, the troposphere, where our weather forms. The bright colors on the outside of a bubble are just varying thicknesses of bubble, just like the varying thicknesses of clouds.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Bubble cubes are central to what I do.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.

When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!

The only thing bubbles care about is wet and dry.

Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.

On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.

I had to find a way to get off the streets because it was too windy. So I started organizing variety shows of street performers. I would rent a hall, cafe or bar so I could put on a show. I did that for years before the 'Tonight Show With Johnny Carson' heard about this odd thing I did with bubbles.