‘That’s just it.’ He laughed. ‘The untrained man reads a paper on natural science and thinks: “Now why couldn’t he explain this in simple language.” He can’t seem to realize that what he tried to read was the simplest possible language – for that subject matter. In fact, a great deal of natural philosophy is simply a process of linguistic simplification – an effort to invent languages in which half a page of equations can express an idea which could not be stated in less than a thousand pages of so-called “simple” language. Do I make myself clear?’
