Analogies Quote by Mary Hesse

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy…

— Samuel Johnson

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

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

— Michael Atiyah

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of…

— E. H. Moore

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

“Occam's razor." "Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most likely.”

— Lisa Kleypas

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by…

— John Searle

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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