"The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much……" — Stephen Jay Gould

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• A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies… — Stefan Banach
• The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot… — Giacomo Casanova
• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all… — A. R. Ammons
• About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of… — William Stanley Jevons
• So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only… — Henri Poincare
• Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look… — Gian-Carlo Rota
• Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,… — Humphry Davy
• The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of… — Arthur Koestler
• You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies… — Michael Faraday
• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy… — Gerhard Richter

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