I find Physics is easier to understand in the equations rather than the verbal expressions. Time travel to me would be ok if that would fit the equations; that is, if there would be negative mass. But we do not find negative mass, and so that is that. The same thing goes for a lot of the interesting things in Physics. The equations seem to me to express things a lot clearer than when the idea is stated in words.

However in math, I find the opposite. If I hear a lecture in math, that almost always makes things more clear to me than if I just read the material.