That is an excellent point.
Is that the exact quote?
It's goin in my quote file.

The middle easterners were possibly th first to conceive of zero in their maths,
what a pity they couldn't carry th notion over to their spirituality!
Would'v saved th world a lotta grief, eh?

I could be quite happy in such a place.

Ah, but you are in such a place,
it's just difficult to appreciate at our scale. :)