Advantage Quote by Thomas George Bonney

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

— Andrew Bird

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its…

— Arthur Schuster

[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

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

— Friedrich Engels

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

— Frederick Pollock

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

“Scholars sometimes use technical terms (i.e., Hypostases) for no good reason, other than the fact that they are the technical terms scholars use.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

— Kedar Joshi