ABSTRACT
Accordingly, only logic and mathematics are completely certain sciences; but they in fact teach us only what we already knew. The fact that Latin has ceased to be the language of all scientific investigation has the disadvantage that there is no longer an immediately common scientific literature for the whole of Europe, but rather national literatures; thereby, every scholar is in the first instance limited to a much smaller public. Only the Germans have fallen upon the unfortunate idea of wanting to Germanicize the termini technici of all the sciences. By contrast, the Greek and Latin terms chosen by the ancient, unforgettable originators of the sciences have all the opposite good qualities, and are easily impressed upon the memory with their sonorous ring. A correct hypothesis is nothing more than the true and complete expression of the fact at hand, which the originator of the hypothesis had intuitively apprehended in its real essence and interconnections.
