Nomenclature Quotes

A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...

— William Shakespeare

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

— Richard Owen

“It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.”

— Kathy Acker

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

— John B. S. Haldane

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

— Richard Owen

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

— Carrie Nugent

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at…

— Fred Hoyle

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing…

— Michael Faraday

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

To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is…

— William Whewell

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the…

— Paul Lockhart

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

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

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell…

— John Ruskin

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking…

— Freeman Dyson

I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Wilhelm Johannsen

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

Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed,…

— Claude Bernard

The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid…

— William Farr

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to…

— Arthur Schuster

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret…

— Michael Faraday

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to…

— Herodotus

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your…

— Benjamin Franklin

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

— Andrew Bird

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

— Friedrich Engels

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.

— Andre-Marie Ampere

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

— John Goodman

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this…

— Mark Twain

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional…

— Aristotle