"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?"