Marston Bates Quote

Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and hastily look for something else to read.


The Nature of Natural History, Chapter 1 (p. 10), Scribner. 1950


Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and...

Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and...

Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and...

Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and...