The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that… — Wilhelm Johannsen Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling 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
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated.… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual;… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence,… — William James Copy Share Image
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
![“And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4cf/benjamin-franklin-65_body_and-we-daily-in-our-experiments-electris_2159838.jpg)
![“This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then…” quote by Herodotus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fbb/herodotus-2844_divided_this-king-sesostris-divided-the-land-amo_1929309.jpg)
![“Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.” quote by Ernst Haeckel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bfa/ernst-haeckel-20972_abstract_phylogeny-and-ontogeny-are-therefore-the_1640087.png)
![“[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery…” quote by Martin Heinrich Klaproth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/761/martin-heinrich-klaproth-72236_appropriate_pitchblende-consists-of-a-peculiar-disti_2854884.png)
![“[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.” quote by Ernest Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a9e/ernest-rutherford-13268_character_from-uranium-there-are-present-at-least_1002130.jpg)
![“One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious…” quote by Fred Hoyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ef/fred-hoyle-11367_bangs_one-idea-was-that-the-universe-started-i_184196.jpg)
