“Now I think hydrodynamics is to be the root of all physical science, and is at present second to none in the beauty of its mathematics.”

— William Thomson

Source: In a letter addressed to George Stokes dated December 20, 1857, as quoted in Fluid Mechanics in the Next Century https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3101925 (1996), by Mohamed Gad-el-Hak and Mihir Sen.

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