"There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too,……" — Alain de Botton

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• Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a… — Unknown Author
• Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of… — Sigmund Freud
• It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the… — Werner Heisenberg
• The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of… — Marcello Malpighi
• Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me… — Charles Darwin
• Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to… — Lorne Rubenstein
• The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it… — Theodor Schwann
• The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms,… — Theodor Schwann
• The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer
• Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the… — Timothy Ball
• Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of… — Ansel Adams

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