John Lighton Synge Professions : Mathematician Born : March 23, 1897 Died : March 30, 1995 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by John Lighton Synge 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. John Lighton Synge ocean beautiful life Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors