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
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our… — Mireille Enos 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
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
If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel 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
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
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
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
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides… — Victor Sperandeo 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 like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare 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
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