Animal Quote by Thomas Aquinas

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

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

“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather that there…

— Robert Macfarlane

“Opening is an essential feature of univocity. The nomadic distributions or crowned anarchies in the univocal stand opposed to the sedentary distribution of analogy.…

— Gilles Deleuze

“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor…

— William of Ockham

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in…

— Albert Bandura

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

— Anonymous

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having…

— John Dewey

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff