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	The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. Edsger Dijkstra Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Scientist Quotes Category: Dutch Scientist Quotes Date of Birth: May 11, 1930 Date of Death: August 6, 2002 Nationality: Dutch Amazon: Edsger Dijkstra on Amazon	Related Authors: Alexis de Tocqueville Isaac Asimov Jean Rostand Kenneth G. Wilson Margaret Mead Paul Nurse Peter D. Mitchell Thomas Huxley
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