Analogies Quotes

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best… — Stefan Banach
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the… — A. R. Ammons
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the… — Michael Faraday
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make… — Gerhard Richter
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — E. H. Moore
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation,… — Abraham Hayward
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — Abraham Lincoln
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're… — Robert Pattinson
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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