“The final lines are not mine: they come from an experiment on soft matter, after Boudin… An English translation might run like this:
Have fun on sea and land
Unhappy it is to become famous
Riches, honors, false glitters of this world
All is but soap bubbles”

—  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

'No conclusion could be more appropriate today.'
"Soft Matter" Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)

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