About Quote by Priyamvada Natarajan Download Open image “Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.” — Priyamvada Natarajan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Adventure Always Knowing Mapping Quest
“Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We interpret everything we experience through mental maps. We seldom question their accuracy; we're usually even unaware that we have them. We simply assume… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works.… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
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I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
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