Thomas George Bonney - The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious d

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

- Thomas George Bonney

topic: Book, Science, Vocabulary, Generalisation, Investigators, Terminology, Technicalities, Impediments