Quotes about analogies
analogies association destruction
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. Antonin Artaud
analogies casual identification
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
analogies firsts walks
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
analogies
. . . all meaning comes from analogies. Douglas Hofstadter
analogies fields genius
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. Stephen Jay Gould
analogies proof fraud
Proof by analogy is fraud. Bjarne Stroustrup
analogies hats
An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on Gillian Jacobs
analogies mencheres
I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered. Jeaniene Frost
analogies actors brilliant
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. Jerry Stiller
analogies firsts principles
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. Elon Musk
analogies fuel way
I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves. John Lindsay
analogies architecture models
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. Leon Krier
analogies assumption mislead
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. Michael Mandelbaum
analogies weapons succeed
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. Henry Adams
analogies proof
Analogy cannot serve as proof. Louis Pasteur
analogies theory proof
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
analogies mathematician
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
analogies logic
Analogy is even slipperier than logic. Robert A. Heinlein