Coined Words Quotes

“After the war, however, in the early 1920s, the government had launched a series of advertisements aimed at getting the population out into the fresh air, encouraging people to go hill walking, which some master of the slogan had abbreviated to hiking.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“Rudolf Clausius coined the word ['entropy'] in 1865, in the course of creating a science of thermodynamics. He needed to name a certain quantity that he had discovered—a quantity related to energy, but not energy.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood