A biography for Tom Noddyhasn’t been written yet.
“It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.”
“The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.”
“Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.”
“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.”
“Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they're a kid's toy. But I think it's more basic than childhood, something primal - the liquid, the flow, the shapes. We were liquid at one point in our development.”
“I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.”
“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.”
“If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.”
“I walked the rainbow trail for a good number of years.”
“I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.”
“Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.”
“Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.”
“There's a brand, Mr. Bubble, that is sometimes called other things, like Mickey Mouse or other names. That's the stuff I use.”
“When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!”
“Bubbles are weird things. They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible. They're not what we think they are.”
“At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.”
“I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.”
“I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.”
“The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.”
“First I got a yo-yo. I got good and then I got bored. Next I got one of those wooden paddles with a rubber ball at the end of an elastic band. I got good and then I got bored. Then I tried bubbles. I got good but I never got bored.”