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by mygo 3374 days ago
Easy to prove =/= Easy to discover (+).

It is simple to say E=MC^2.

That doesn't take away from the fact that it was very hard for it to be discovered.

And it's a good thing. It's a good thing that things which were hard to discover can be communicated easily. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to compress thousands of lifetimes worth of discoveries into a one-semester lecture.

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(+) footnote: well, unless P=NP.