The Physicist Who Hated Jargon

Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics, helped build the atomic bomb, and was considered one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. His secret was not raw intelligence.

Feynman believed that complexity is often a mask for confusion. If a professor could not explain something simply, Feynman suspected they did not truly understand it themselves. The simpler your explanation, the deeper your grasp of the idea.