Analogies Quote by 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

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

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

“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

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

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on…

— Gerhard Richter

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

— Jeaniene Frost

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's…

— Kevin Spacey

Life is like an analogy.

— Aaron Allston

The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you…

— John Romero

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of…

— Arthur Koestler

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if…

— Edgar Allan Poe