Richard Feynman Quotes on Clarity
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers: one saying to the other: 'you don't know what you are talking about!'. The second one says: 'what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?'
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I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood it.