Quotes About Similarity

The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat, from the river that wears it away. The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it; the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents; the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space. Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same. A

Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.

They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.

The outside mirrors the inside.

The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and energizing friction that define a creative pair.

There are no differences without comparisons."

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.

System 1 generates an impression of similarity without intending to do so. The representativeness heuristic is involved when someone says "She will win the election; you can see she is a winner" or "He won't go far as an academic; too many tattoos.

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other.

judgments of similarity and probability are not constrained by the same logical rules. It is entirely acceptable for judgments of similarity to be unaffected by base rates and also by the possibility that the description was inaccurate, but anyone who ignores base rates and the quality of evidence in probability assessments will certainly make mistakes.

Failures of detection followed the same inverted-V pattern as the dilating pupil. The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.

Errors are bound to occur when a judgment of similarity is substituted for a judgment of probability

Venn diagrams apply only to probability, not to similarity. Hence the predictable logical error that many people make.

occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.

nothing in the history of mankind is ever repeated, things that at first glance seem the same are scarcely even similar; each individual is a star unto himself, everything happens always and never, all things repeat themselves ad infinitum yet are unique.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

We're like two peas in a pod""Pity the pod

You see, I just love analogies. Give me a good old analogy any day.

In other words, the animals are not similar to the man — in the way that the woman will be. The animals are certainly different from the man, but that is not what the story is interested in. It is pursuing not differences but someone similar to the man, someone similar enough to be "his partner" (in contrast to the animals, who are not sufficiently similar), and someone strong enough to be his "helper.

and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common.