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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

Kurt Vonnegut
analogies baby people

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Lee Kuan Yew
analogies add inspiring
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies,... by Leon Krier

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Leon Krier
models analogies architecture
Analogy cannot serve as proof. by Louis Pasteur

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

Louis Pasteur
proof analogies

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.

Mary Hesse
analogies development science

He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

Melina Marchetta
analogies trying mean

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Michael Mandelbaum
mislead assumption analogies

Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.

Mike Fisher
important-relationships next analogies
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of... by Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal
analogies body soul

So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.

Noam Chomsky
analogies views thinking
Life is like a box of terrible analogies. by Oscar Wilde

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Oscar Wilde
boxes life-is-like analogies

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Philip Emeagwali
analogies different fields

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.

Rene Thom
analogies giving science
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the m... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
findings analogies identity
No historical analogies are exactly precise. by Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Rick Perlstein
precise analogies historical

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

Rob McKenna
reform analogies needs
Analogy is even slipperier than logic. by Robert A. Heinlein

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Robert A. Heinlein
logic analogies

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Robert Musil
analogies intellectual lying

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

Robin Sloan
analogies imagination running
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading th... by Samuel Butler

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Samuel Butler
dishonesty analogies lying
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