[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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