Setayesh Dashti’s Reviews > In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems > Status Update

It is striking how in both physics and mathematics, there’s a lack of proportion between the effort needed to understand something for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the solution once all the required stages have been completed. In the sciences as in poetry, there’s hardly a trace in the finish product … of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in order to achieve it.