Available Quote by David Mermin

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

— David Mermin

...when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

— Theodor Adorno

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but…

— Paul Feyerabend

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

— Gottfried Leibniz

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”

— David J. Griffiths

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

— Alan Bennett

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest…

— Ralph Linton

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

— Anonymous

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not…

— Karl Popper