Age Quote by Tony Rothman

“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

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

— Stefan Banach

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

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

— Scarlett Thomas

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

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

Science always uses metaphor.

— James Lovelock

“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

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

Science is all metaphor.

— Timothy Leary

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

— Ray Bradbury