Analogies Quote by Louis Pasteur

“Proof by analogy is fraud.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

— Samuel Butler

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

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy,…

— Mary Hesse

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

— Robert South

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

— Franz Kafka

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

— Terry Pratchett

Science always uses metaphor.

— James Lovelock