Analogy Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analogy Misleading Though
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum 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
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
“Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a “life-is-like-this” on the page. I… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“ Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“As ovelhas tresmalhadas se não andam no caminho de Deus, o diabo leva.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her… — Lily King Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
