Analogous Quotes
67 Analogous quotes by 63 unique authors
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We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to…
— C.S. Lewis
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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty…
— Simone Weil
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There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power…
— Alain de Botton
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
— Nick Hornby
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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
— Edmund Burke
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The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is…
— David Rumelhart
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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from…
— Louis de Broglie
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You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical.…
— James Gleick
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,…
— Larry McMurtry
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First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
— Philip Emeagwali
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island,…
— Jack Schwartz
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But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program…
— Marvin Minsky
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