Demonstration Quote by William Blake

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost…

— Gerhard Richter

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

— Alonzo King

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

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

“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus…

— Kenneth J.W. Craik

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the…

— Henri Poincare

“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

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the…

— Dave Van Ronk

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy…

— Samuel Johnson

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects…

— Philip J. Davis

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately