Analogies Quote by Michael Faraday

ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting…

— Michael Faraday

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an…

— Nikola Tesla

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the…

— Alfred Noyes

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

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

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

— Wilfred Owen

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

— David Mermin