What’s the most radical idea possible, the one least likely to be understood by humanity, the one so far beyond humanity’s level of intelligence that whoever champions it is likely to be regarded as insane? Go on, if you’re smart you ought to be conceive of a connection so unobvious, so invisible to the masses, so improbable in relation to any other idea, that it will be almost universally rejected. That idea – despised, mocked and reviled by practically everyone – will be the No.1 candidate for being the authentic answer to existence. Pythagoras was the genius that delivered this idea – 2,500 years ago! – when he said, “All things are numbers.” The last connection that the average person would ever make when they look at the world is that what they are actually seeing, beyond the level of superficial appearance, is nothing but numbers. That is the ultimate unthinkable thought. God is Mathematics.
