Quote by David J. Griffiths

“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.”

— Nihad Sirees

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”

— Joann Sfar

“Without expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will…

— Gustave Courbet

“I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”

— Bob Dylan

“is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Definitions only belong to those who need them.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words…

— Brian Eno

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”

— William of Ockham

“Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.”

— Bob Dylan

“You cannot be named. To define is to confine.”

— Sue Maisano