Top 33 Quotes About Nomenclature
#1. I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"
Mark Twain
#2. The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility ...
Andrew Vachss
#3. Steps for Problem-Solving Know your nomenclature. Identify the functional groups. Identify the other reagents. Identify the most reactive functional group(s). Identify the first step of the reaction. Consider stereoselectivity.
Kaplan
#4. In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
Friedrich Engels
#5. The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.
G.K. Chesterton
#6. When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.
J.R. Ward
#7. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.
Amor Towles
#8. Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#9. The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Nassau William Senior
#10. I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern ... : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.
Terry Tempest Williams
#11. While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
Antoine Lavoisier
#12. Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears.
Francis P. Farquhar
#13. And then God, in his benevolence, tasked Adam with the nasty business of nomenclature, calling beasts of land and water and air for what he saw fit, giving them names, calling them names, pegging down their potentials to classifications, to genus, to species.
Carlos Malvar
#14. When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.
Vint Cerf
#15. [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
Paul Lockhart
#16. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#17. Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made ... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes ... For a single genus, a single name.
Carl Linnaeus
#18. He picked one at random, a luridly violent far-future crime novel about a detective who could seemingly exchange bodies at will, but the subject matter was alien to him and his attention drifted. It all seemed very far-fetched.
Richard K. Morgan
#19. We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.
Bob Walker
#20. We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.
August Kekule
#22. When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.
Richard Dreyfuss
#23. I believe that you have to withstand whatever problems come your way. You have to make the decisions that are best for you.
Hillary Clinton
#24. Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
Ernest Mandel
#25. If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
Austin O'Malley
#26. Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.
David Platt
#27. When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Charlie Watts
#28. I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
Vin Diesel
#29. The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Phyllis Schlafly
#30. She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier.
Nick Hornby
#31. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
John Goodman
#32. This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram
#33. And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?
D.H. Lawrence
