Antoine Lavoisier — "As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follow…"

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.
Antoine Lavoisier — Antoine Lavoisier Early Modern · Father of modern chemistry

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From his 'Elements of Chemistry', emphasizing the importance of precise scientific language.

Date: 1789

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