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Quotation from Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier
“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.”
Elements of Chemistry, Preface of the Author, trans. Robert Kerr
The principle that joins the nomenclature reform of 1787 to the new system of chemistry.
Citation: "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." — Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, Preface of the Author, trans. Robert Kerr. (id lavoisier-elements-of-chemistry-q2)
Portrait: David - Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier (cropped), Jacques-Louis David, Public domain.
