Analogue Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of…
— John Timbs
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
— Richard Owen
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
— Austin O'Malley
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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and…
— Wolfgang Kohler
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost…
— Martin Gardner
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I…
— Billy Sherwood
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear…
— Paul Carus
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or…
— David Abram
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Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than…
— Lewis Baltz
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such…
— Elizabeth Edwards
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The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
— George Crumb
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process…
— Adam Savage
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I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King…
— Subb-an
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The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,…
— Stephen King
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Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
— Kenneth Burke
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All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
— Thomas Merton
Who Wrote These Analogue Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Analogue Quotes as follows: