Concepts Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena…

— Anonymous

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

— Albert Einstein

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

Nature is a language - can't you read?

— Anonymous

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

— Terence McKenna

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

— John Charles Polanyi

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

— Carl Sagan

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the…

— Steven Pinker