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 & a phlegmatic temper. This is particularly the case with respect to chemistry, which is as easy to be comprehended as any of the common affairs of life, but gentlemen have been kept from applying to it by the jargon in which it has been industriously involved.

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Having to work through technical terminology is a barrier to bringing science to everyone.

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 Professor Cullen's treatise of the materia medica
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Cullen , William and Barton , Benjamin Smith (1812), Professor Cullen's treatise of the materia medica, Retrieved on 2012-03-18
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