Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Let's see... we'll put it in baseball analogies for you since you seem to be so keen on them. Almost third base… — K.Bromberg Copy Share Image
If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this… — Rob McKenna Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy.… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a “life-is-like-this” on the… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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