Analogies Quote by James Geary

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves…

— James Geary

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor…

— Jonathan Haidt

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

— George Polya

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

— Ray Bradbury

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

— Denis Leary

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel…

— William Stanley Jevons

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

— Ray Bradbury

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker

“Every field of knowledge is different, but they are all connected. And they often rhyme. This means that something in the way you describe…

— Chris Anderson

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

— Ray Bradbury