Clarity Quotes (2)

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.
Autobiography, 257-358. Quoted in William H. Brock, Justus Von Liebig (2002), 9.
See also:  |  Chemist (20)  |  Michael Faraday (39)  |  Idea (83)  |  Intellect (47)  |  Lecture (18)  |  Music (10)  |  Research (208)  |  Teaching (9)  |  Thought (65)

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
See also:  |  Garbage (2)  |  Jargon (2)  |  Nomenclature (51)  |  Talk (6)

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