And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'. — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science,… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed,… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
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