Firsts Quote by Arthur Mattuck

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

— Simon Singh

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes…

— Maynard James Keenan

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as…

— Victor Pelevin

“The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names.”

— John Stuart Mill

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

— Anonymous

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

— Carrie Nugent

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

— Susan Sontag

“Isaac Newton was a brilliant British mathematician and physicist who came up with three laws of motion,”

— Jerome Pohlen

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

— Laozi