"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are……" — Henri Poincare

More 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… — Stefan Banach
• The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot… — Giacomo Casanova
• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all… — 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… — William Stanley Jevons
• Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,… — Humphry Davy
• The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of… — Arthur Koestler
• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy… — Gerhard Richter
• [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,… — William Lawrence Bragg
• ... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering… — Mary Hesse
• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for… — Abraham Hayward

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