Top Quotes & Sayings by John Lighton Synge

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish mathematician John Lighton Synge.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
John Lighton Synge

John Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.
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