Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN1

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

—WERNER HEISENBERG2

If you cannot—in the long run—tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

—ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER3