Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The day I met a friendly ghost was the day I came up with better analogies.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis?… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Abraham Hayward Copy Share Image
Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image