Technical Vocabulary Quotes

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.