Analogy 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
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
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
[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
I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in… — John Oliver
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Kim Stanley
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say… — Jerry Stiller
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you… — Christopher Nolan
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright… — Carl Jung

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