Analogies Quote by Kim Stanley Robinson

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy…

— Konrad Lorenz

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

— Mos Def

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

— Dee Hock

“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable…

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

E-books are impervious to analogy.

— Scott Adams

His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too…

— Manny Laureano

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

— Kenneth Clark

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole,…

— Lukas Foss

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson…

— Bill Watterson