Quotes by Tom Noddy - Page 2

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.
Tom Noddy /
Bubbles
Cubes
Dishes
Odd
Shapes
Soap
Irregular
Sink
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I tried to do a puppet show on the streets, and I wasn't a very good street performer. But I found that I could stand in one place in Central Park and bounce a soap bubble on my arm, and I didn't have to gather a crowd for the puppet show. I had a crowd.
Tom Noddy /
Bounce
Central Park
Found
Soap
Stand
Arm
Show
Bubble
Central
Puppet
Crowd
Street
Gather
Park
Performer
Puppet Show
Tried
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If you look at the Karamazov Brothers on TV, they're really small and the heart is taken out of their act. That's true for most variety acts. I'm an exception. When the camera comes in close and looks at those soap bubbles, you can really see what bubbles do.
Tom Noddy /
Bubbles
Exception
Soap
Variety
Acts
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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.
Tom Noddy /
Electrical
Linked
Soap
Attracted
Bubble
Molecule
Nearby
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I took a job at a factory in New Jersey to try to save money to go to Europe. When I took the job, I set a date for quitting. I was going to hitchhike around, be a hippie, see the world. I just wanted to be responsible long enough to get up the money to get there and trip around.
Tom Noddy /
Enough
Europe
Jersey
New Jersey
Quitting
Wanted
Job
Money World Long
Money Enough World
Try
Date
Set
Factory
Save
Took
Trip
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There is a dream on the street. I hear it constantly - finding a piece of land, raising food, building a house. I hear talk of hopelessness. The price of land, you know. Housing is impossible. They are trapped in a cycle. How can you ask for a job after you've been sleeping in the bushes all night?
Tom Noddy /
All Night
Hopelessness
Housing
Impossible
Trapped
Bushes
Constantly
Cycle
Finding
Street
Piece
Price
Sleeping
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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.
Tom Noddy /
Bubbles
Heard
Odd
Performers
Tonight
Variety
Windy
Bar
Cafe
Organizing
Street
Hall
Johnny
Odd Thing
Rent
Tonight Show
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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.
Tom Noddy /
Clouds
Liquid
Trapped
Weather
Bright
Bubble
Sphere
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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.
Tom Noddy /
Bubbles
Corners
Irony
Join
Mathematicians
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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.
Tom Noddy /
Great Day
Love Science Great
Constructed
Directions
Hands-On
Just Something
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