Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

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

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one…

— Benjamin Hoff

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

— Anthony Standen

“No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: we identify something by its established name, describe…

— Hope Jahren

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are…

— Carl Sagan

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and…

— Benjamin Hoff

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

“It is a ridiculous word, reminiscent of the pseudo-science of those doctors, and it is a measure of the triumph of marketing that this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

— Warren Buffett

“Scientific hypotheses are always tentative; they are designed to be held only so long as they conform to the evidence. Proponents of the theistic…

— Keith Parsons