"The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the……" — Unknown Author

"The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience"

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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity. — Austin O'Malley
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