Title: Physics and Intelligibility Abstract: Many of the most important theories in physics - from Aristotelian physics to Newtonian gravitational theory to quantum mechanics - have been accused by other important physicists of being "unintelligible" or "unexplanatory" even if they satisfy obvious theoretical desiderata like empirical adequacy, simplicity, and elegance. I'll talk about a few interesting episodes in the history of physics in order to try to figure out what this kind of criticism could mean - if it means anything at all - and what it tells us about how the goals of physics have shifted throughout its history.