I just explained a new HIV preventative drug by using a tower defense analogy. I fear I may never top this achievement. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
“Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she… — Mia James Copy Share Image
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“In canning, the best stuff comes out of things that aren't so sweet, and you have to hope the analogy covers everything.” — Debby Bull Copy Share Image
“So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.” — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“The teacher who assesses his students with providing feedback is like the optician to give the people the suitable glasses to see… — Fatima Almoemen Copy Share Image
“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At… — Julian Barnes 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
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created,… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Just as we were misled into untenable ideas of the aether through trusting to an analogy with the material ocean, so we… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising;… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“An analogy to natural language illustrates the point. The letters A,C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis?… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“ Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
“Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
“The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“It was awful. It was, like, walk out to the woods, Change, stand there until enough time passed, Change back. It was… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“She stared down into her coffee, as if she had more to say, but the words had fallen into the mug and… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.” — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who… — Shashi Tharoor 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 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
