Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

A. R. Ammons

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.

Douglas Hofstadter

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Antonin Artaud

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Michael Mandelbaum

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

Henry Adams

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

Stefan Banach

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.

Stefan Banach

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

Emma Biel

I worked very hard. Just look at my hands. I'm proof that it isn't work that kills you.

Aristotle

All proofs rest on premises.

Adam Braun

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Adam Ereli

The proof will be in the pudding. Let's see what happens.

Jim Sluzewski

The proof will be in the integration of the transition.

John Brady

The proof is in when you look at him,

Jerry Foster

The proof is in the pudding: you have to will what you want.

Bryan Whitman

The proof is in (Hussein's) actions. That would be positive, if it's true.

Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.