Analogies Quotes

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.

Sin φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ), well then, let us write (sin φ), but not sin φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ)

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

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.

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.'

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

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

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.

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

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

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

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Life is like an analogy.

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.

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

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

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

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

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.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.

The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.

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.

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.

... 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.

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

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

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

"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.

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

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

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces