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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

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The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Life of Lord Kelvin (1910)

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

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