
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Cullen , William and Barton , Benjamin Smith (1812), Professor Cullen's treatise of the materia medica, Retrieved on 2012-03-18Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: medical Memes
18 MAR 2012
Jargon Scares People Away from Science
I would have you to observe that the difficulty & mystery which often appear in matters of science & learning are only owing to the terms of art used in them, & if many gentlemen had not been rebuted by the uncouth dress in which science was offered to them, we must believe that many of these who now shew an acute & sound judgement in the affairs of life would also in science have excelled many of those who are devoted to it & who were engaged in it only by necessity &...Having to work through technical terminology is a barrier to bringing science to everyone.