Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle 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
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
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
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
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
There's a real feel-good warmth to the show [The Flash]. It feels like you're watching, for lack of a better analogy, Friends… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
“Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is… — Erskine Bowles Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Most geniuses responsible for the major mutations in the history of thought seem to have certain features in common; on the one… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image