Phrases Quote by Anthony Standen

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.”

— Mark Frost

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words…

— Scott Adams

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

— Stephen Young

“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes…

— Scott Adams

“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is…

— Werner Heisenberg

Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge…

— Bryan Appleyard

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able…

— Hermann Bondi

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

— Andrew Bird

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