There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. -Thomas Reid Brainy
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. -Thomas Reid Architecture
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. -Thomas Reid Knowledge
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. -Thomas Reid Nature
