Analogies Quote by Stefan Banach

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the…

— Stefan Banach

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

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

— Michael Mandelbaum

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

— Joel Edgerton

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your…

— Wendell Berry

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the…

— Chip Heath

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas