Chemistry Quote by William Whewell

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that…

— Michael Faraday

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

— Evan Parker

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all…

— Sylvia Plath

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying…

— J. Robert Lennon

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

With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— David J. Griffiths

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

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who…

— Lynne Truss

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

— Andy Rooney