Quotes by Analogies I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. A. R. Ammons analogieswalksfirsts Life is like an analogy. Aaron Allston life-is-likeanalogieslife-is Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different. Albert Einstein analogiesgrowthdifferent Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close. Alfred North Whitehead casualidentificationanalogies Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. Antonin Artaud analogiesdestructionassociation Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking to God, they would call Bellevue. But, take away the hair dryer, it's just praying.' Bill Maher analogieshairtalking Proof by analogy is fraud. Bjarne Stroustrup fraudproofanalogies Sin Carl Friedrich Gauss analogiesusewriting I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. Carlos Fuentes analogiesimaginationuse Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach. Charles de Lint analogiesrealthinking As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole. Charles Hodge individualanalogieschurch Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. Charles Lyell metaphysicalanalogiesscience . . . all meaning comes from analogies. Douglas Hofstadter analogies We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features. E. H. Moore analogiesmathscience The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. Edouard Vuillard analogiestechniqueimpossible There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe analogiesplayerchess Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. Eliphas Levi analogiesmovementlaw I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. Elon Musk analogiesprinciplesfirsts I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy? Erin Morgenstern cakeanalogiesthinking "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. G. M. Trevelyan analogieseventspast1234»
