Quotes About Analogy

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.

In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to "a human being with his skin removed.

Palabras pulcramente escogidas; frases de cuidada estructura; acumulación argumental; empleo de la analogía; despliegue de excentricidades... Esos son los cinco mimbres retóricos del mayor orador de su generación.

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.

A famous agricultural analogy to this system of karmic classifica¬ tion equates karma with rice. This makes Sanchita Karma the already grown rice that has been harvested and stored in the granary. Prarabdha Karma is the small portion of that stored rice that has been removed from storage, husked, and readied for cooking and eating. Kriyamana Karma is the rice that is now being planted in the field to produce a future crop.

when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Life is like a simile.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Everything is a metaphor for everything else.

what is the difference between poetry and prose you know the old analogies prose is a house poetry a man in flames running quite fast through it

As Placher well knew, there is no analogy from the side of the fallen creation that "works." None of the symbols, images, motifs, and themes "work" in any logical way, either as analogies or as theories to explain what God in Christ is doing on the cross.

The E.U. without Britain is like fish without chips.

Birds and animals in the wild migrate every year to safer and nurturing pastures, leaving behind the old environment. After nurturing their young ones, they return to thrive in the old environs. I use that analogy to meditate. You migrate to your inner soul, nurture the strength, light and creativity there, and return.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but Hell is an inference from analogy.

He looked around the room and felt heartburn coming on like the drunk mother of a friend.

Our love is like. Our love is only like.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.