Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes… — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there,… — John Romero Copy Share Image
For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Learning what it is to be among other human beings includes learning that they can be different from us as well as… — David Wong Copy Share Image
We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church.… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
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