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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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