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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.
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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.
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If the ether were at rest, the direction of light would be that of a normal to the surfaces of the waves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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.
Known for:
Mathematical and physical papers (1880)
On light (1884)
Natural Theology (1891)
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