|
J. L. Synge
(23 Mar 1897 - 30 Mar 1995)
Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist who is known for his work on the geometry of relativity, but also had an international career that included ballistics research for the U.S. Army.
|
Science Quotes by J. L. Synge (1 quote)
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.
— J. L. Synge
In Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy (1957), 101.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
