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, 1st Baron Kelvin, Letter to George Stokes (1857)

Source: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3101925

From an 1857 letter to George Stokes, quoted in Gad-el-Hak and Sen's Fluid Mechanics in the Next Century (1996).

Topics: physics