In science, each new point of view calls forth a…

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length…

— Michael Faraday

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

— Carrie Nugent

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

— Richard Owen

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton……

— James Clerk Maxwell

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

— Richard Owen

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is…

— Fred Hoyle

Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself…

— Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes…

— Wilhelm Johannsen

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note,…

— Thomas Jefferson