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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on… — John Templeton 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
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy 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
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by… — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
It's such a cool group of people that it [being a part of the DC Universe] feels like, for lack of a… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a… — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,… — Chuck Klosterman 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
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary Copy Share Image
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the… — Herbert Read 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
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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