Analogies Quote by Louis Pasteur Download Open image “Analogy cannot serve as proof.” — Louis Pasteur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analogies Proof
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image