I only came to understand this there. Because mathematics stands above everything. The works of Abel and Kronecker are as good today as they were four hundred years ago, and it will always be so. New roads arise, but the old ones lead on. They do not become overgrown. There...there you have eternity. Only mathematics does not fear it. Up there, I understood how final it is. And strong.
Stanisław Lem, Return from the Stars












