What intrigued me more than anything was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation—all of it!—was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was real stability.
This is how I feel about math. It is indeed comforting to know there are unarguable definitives upon which we may lean in times of confusion and indecision. Personal opinions, religion, politics, fads, advice, and other mercurial entities flow in the wind, malleable to person and time, but the ever reliable, good old "2 + 2 = 4" has never let me down! Facts is facts.
