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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

It is very difficult for us, placed as we have been from earliest childhood in a condition of training, to say what would have been our feelings had such training never taken place.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

If the ether were at rest, the direction of light would be that of a normal to the surfaces of the waves.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

The equations of Hydrostatics are founded on the principles that the mutual action of two adjacent elements of a fluid is normal to the surface which separates them, and that the pressure is equal in all directions.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

The equations of motion so formed are very complicated, but yet they admit of solution in some instances, especially in the case of small oscillations.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

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Born: August 13, 1819

Died: February 1, 1903 (aged 83)

Bio: Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was a mathematician, physicist, politician and theologian.

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