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.

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.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

We spent a lot of time defining and redefining bowling. Traditionally, people have thought about bowling as kind of mom and pop, Laverne and Shirley-ish. We've brought a whole different sense of style and a charm to it. It's very sexy.

We see pictures of people we haven't thought about for a long time that's very interesting.