"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

January 1, 1970

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