Sherwin B. Nuland

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

American Scientist

Winona LaDuke

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.

American Activist

Thomas Babington Macaulay

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

British Poet

Antoine Lavoisier

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

French Scientist

Nassau William Senior

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

English Economist

Vint Cerf

When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

Carrie Nugent

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

Bowen Yang

I wonder if there's space to queer the nomenclature in fitness. Maybe we call a goblet squat a Dannii Minogue instead? Just an idea.

Used in specific fields like biology or chemistry to refer to unique sets of names.

Subject-Specific

A uniform naming system helps avoid confusion, especially in science and academia.

Consistency Matters

Nomenclature can vary by culture, recognizing the diversity of language in different contexts.

Cultural Recognition

Naming new discoveries or concepts can be inventive, yet must be communicative and clear.

Creative Process

Naming conventions can change as new insights or standards emerge within a field.

Evolution Over Time

The way things are named can reflect our understanding of them and their relationships.

Reflects Understanding

Nomenclature should be precise and clear to successfully communicate specific concepts.

Avoid Ambiguity

Familiarizing oneself with nomenclature comes easier through active use in relevant contexts.

Learn Through Usage

 Today, we have companies that can sit down with a computer and from that genetic sequence, make what is a candidate vaccine. Now, a candidate vaccine obviously means it's not a licensed product. It's something that somebody wants to work on. But you're right, you have to have the right nomenclature,

The quest for the...

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