An oversimplification, but yes.

It's a gross oversimplification, but let me say this is the gene for insulin.

What I said about there being no non aging species earlier on was a little bit of an oversimplification.

And I'm doing a gross oversimplification here, but this is really just to give you the idea of what's going on.

This brew oversimplification of civic engagement, idealization of the expert, fragmentation of knowledge, emphasis on technical mastery, neutrality as a condition of academic integrity is toxic when it comes to pursuing the vital connections between education and the public good, between intellectual integrity and human freedom, which were at the heart (Applause) of the challenge posed to and by my European colleagues.

It would be a gross oversimplification to speak, as some are doing, of a clash between civilization and barbarism. In reality, we are confronted with a widening divide over the role of religion, which runs between the West (with the US being a complicated exception) and much of the rest of the world (the most notable exception being China), but particularly the Islamic world.