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 Early Modern

Father of modern chemistry

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

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1789

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