Gerald H. Pollack > Quotes

“Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.” Without that dance, there could be no life.”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

“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.”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

“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”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

“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.”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

“The water-bridge. A bridge made of water spans the gap between two water-filled beakers. What sustains the bridge?”
― Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor