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
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
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
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen 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
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
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
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
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
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
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ... — William Shakespeare 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
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
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