I also like to read difficult things that don’t say much to me, just to be in something difficult. Now, for instance, I’m reading about chemistry. I don’t know anything about chemistry, and that’s a comfort. The same with reading Heidegger, it’s also completely incomprehensible but it’s still something … I like being in that

— Karl Ove Knausgaard in the LA Review of Books

This made me laugh because I can completely relate to reading in this way some times. I let most of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram just roll right on by me for an inordinate amount of time when it came out.