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Power of Mathematics
What I like doing is taking something that other people thought was complicated and difficult to understand, and finding a simple idea, so that any fool – and, in this case, you – can understand the complicated thing. These simple ideas can be astonishingly powerful, and they are also astonishingly difficult to find. Many times it has taken a century or more for someone to have the simple idea; in fact it has often taken two thousand years, because often the Greeks could have had that idea, and they didn’t. People often have the misconception that what someone like Einstein did is complicated. No, the truly earthshattering ideas are simple ones. But these ideas often have a subtlety of some sort, which stops people from thinking of them. The simple idea involves a question nobody had thought of asking.
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