It is impossible to dissociate language from
science or science from language, because
every natural science always involves three
things: the sequence of phenomena on
which the science is based; the abstract
concepts which call these phenomena to
mind; and the words in which the concepts
are expressed. To call forth a concept, a
word is needed; to portray a phenomenon,
a concept is needed. All three mirror one
and the same reality.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794
Traité Elémentaire de Chimie (1789)