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Analogy Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum
- After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting…
- While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
More Analogy Quotes
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the… — Giacomo Casanova
- I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between 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… — 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… — Humphry Davy
- The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is… — Arthur Koestler
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter
- [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — William Lawrence Bragg
- ... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of… — Mary Hesse
- The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Unknown Author