"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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J. L. Synge, in Mathematical Reports of the Academy of Science, Volume 7, p. 111
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