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When other scientists seemed to have language more valid than my own I accepted their terminology. But I held to my own terminology when I found it to be warranted, and when other claimants could not be justified. For example, quantum mechanics came many years after I did to employ the term spin. The physicists assured me that their use of the word did not involve any phenomena which truly spun. Spin was only a convenient word for accounting certain unique energy behaviors and investments. My use of the term was to describe a direct investment of experimentally demonstrable unique magnitude of rotation, an actually spinning phenomenon. This was a case when I held to my own terms. In most recent years it is beginning to be realized by the physicists as an actually spinning phenomenon-- as I had demonstrated it as actually occurring almost half a century ago. … In recent years I found the term spin being adopted by others; sometimes with the same meaning, sometimes with other meanings. But from the viewpoint of half a century there appears to be an increasing convergence of scientific explorations, epistemology, and semantics with my own evolutionary development.
