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.


Elements of Chemistry (1790), trans. R. Kerr, Preface, xiv-v


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...

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...

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...

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...