Quotes About Analogy

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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 metaphor of the brain as a computer has been central to the insights generated by cognitive psychologists during the past fifty years.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.

The scientist thus learns truth experimentally or mathematically; the strategist reasons at least partly by analogy with the past – first establishing which events are comparable and which prior conclusions remain relevant.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

Science always uses metaphor.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

When we are in an unfamiliar situation, we fall back on drawing analogies with old familiar situations. That's a good way to proceed if the old and new situations are truly analogies, but it can be dangerous if they are only superficially similar.

Deep sleep is when you are asleep but not dreaming. Paradoxical sleep is the sleep in which you dream. So, only paradoxical thought is the thought in which you think. Is there, by analogy, a paradoxical state of death - a deep death and a death with dreams? It is evil that speaks evil: evil can ventriloquize.

nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

because for me, Harry Potter is a Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito.

The guy did the thing like a bad simile.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

In metaphor we say what we mean, but we don't mean what we say. In analogy we mean what we say, but we don't know what we mean.

We can retrieve the correct use of the commandments only by invoking a typological analogy between redemption from Egypt and redemption from sin by Christ.

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think it's accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

The finite and the infinite are "incommensurable" (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between