He looked at all the fields of science and saw that physicists, biologists, and chemists come up with some sort of hypothesis, they prove it, and then a hundred years later somebody comes in and creates an improved model. They pretty much forget everything that was done in the past. It becomes a footnote, and he didn’t want to be a footnote. Mathematics is the only field, he noticed, where laws are thousands of years old. He loved that proximity to immortality: once you prove something, it’s proven forever.
