"It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil."

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It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

— Albert Einstein