Words are innocent beings. What they achieve is determined by their usage in language. This book contains fifteen pieces on form and freedom in scientific language. Challenging questions: What is contemporary scientific language? How does a good text come into being? How can clarity emerge from the murkiness of the Homeric fog? A lingua franca for science: only English? How does academic teaching succeed (or not) in relation to text and language? These pieces traverse various barren lands, through taboos and dreams, through confession and doubt. Under the motto "giving space to language," the pieces are connected by a common thread that tentatively unravels aspects of scientific language use—toward one expectation: good language, good science. This expectation is primarily based on the freedoms and the richness of language. Here lie countless possibilities for expression.