The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.