Check for understanding at the end of every topic, "Is that comprehensible?
Significantly, it is an island (I like comprehensible territory).
(Then, throughout, if what I am reading is only partly comprehensible, I do not spend a lot of energy trying to make sense of it, but in my review I will relay the ambiguities to the author).
I found the math comprehensible, and I'm no Einstein.
Heston's mission suffered from a woolliness of intent that made it hard to justify the grandeur of the project – all that ice-cream, all those forklifts – where Ó Briain's budget experiment managed to make a complex concept at least partially comprehensible (I could explain how it works easily, but I'll direct you to the show's website for reasons of space).
While some offerings can be incomprehensible (including the one entitled "Why Is Our World Comprehensible?"), others keep it simpler.
For the Domino reissue of Liquid Liquid's brief but essential back catalogue, I wrote largely comprehensible words.
In prose that is both suggestive and comprehensible (I salute the translators, Simon Carnell and Erica Segre), Rovelli explains that there are fundamental inconsistencies between Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum theory; both can't be right unless a sort of jerry-rigged science is bolted on to make up what is known as the Standard Model.
To the contrary, he thinks of the clarity that extensionality brings as a great advantage, and of theories that lack it as not fully comprehensible: "I find extensionality necessary, indeed, though not sufficient, for my full understanding of a theory" (1995, 90f).
At times I hated it, daydreaming of the lovely, comprehensible books I would read when all this was finally over, even feeling a pang of desire when I thought I'd move on to Hamlet; in that moment, Hamlet felt like a holiday.
