"As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it."

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Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.18

Antoine Lavoisier

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