When they something cannot be done, they are often wrong. Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also working on that idea. Furthermore, they are using notation very similar to your's. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Continuous mathematics is simpler than discrete mathematics.
The most interesting mathematics involves the interplay between the continuous and the discrete. The language of truth is simple.