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If you can't explain what you're doing and why you're doing it to any intelligent layman, that really means that you don't understand it yourself.
Communicate and we'll win in the end.
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Even for the physicist, the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
The grant proposals that are well written are usually the ones that get the checks.
We need to be writing for Congress and the public. We've been too elitist too long. Scientists want their stories in the press, but complain when they are misquoted. You won't get the support you need if others don't understand what you're doing.
One way to find out if you have succeeded (in writing clearly) is to show your draft to colleagues in other specialties. If they do not understand, neither, very probably, will The Lancet's staff.
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
Clear writing is an essential ingredient of any communication and especially scientific communication. For example, in Science, we don't encourage clear writing, we insist on it.
Vague forms of speech have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard words mistaken for deep learning, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but a hindrance to true knowledge.
Write for a scientist in another field. Don't underestimate your readers' intelligence, but don't overestimate their knowledge of a particular field. When writing about science, don't simplify the science; simplify the writing.
I have made this letter longer that usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Without the crucial ability to write clearly and forcefully, you will find the process of getting support for your work more difficult.
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
Clarity begins at hom.
Whatever is worth saying can be stated in fifty words or less.
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