Analogous Quotes
67 Analogous quotes by 63 unique authors
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some…
— Aaron Scharf
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Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken…
— Djuna Barnes
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The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
— Antoine Predock
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
— Victor Hugo
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I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make…
— John N. Bahcall
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it…
— Rene Thom
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very…
— Frederik Pohl
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We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save…
— Richard Whately
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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be…
— Gary Saul Morson
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When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents.…
— Janet Yellen
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It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place…
— James Henry Breasted
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If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so…
— Alec Soth
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to…
— Bertrand Russell
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
— Henri Matisse
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When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of…
— Alberto Giacometti
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The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with…
— Walter J. Phillips
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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least…
— Gideon Haigh
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
— Jacques Derrida
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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure…
— Herbert Read
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it…
— Rowan Williams
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