Analogy Quotes
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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— Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. Maelzel's Chess-Player, Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).
Proof by analogy is fraud.
bjarne stroustrup— Stroustrup, Bjarne. The C++ Programming Language. pp. 692.
Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
— Charles Dickens (1869), in The Uncommercial Traveller, and Additional Christmas Stories, p.102
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict . It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.
— Matthew Rhys, in The Americans: Matthew Rhys on Cold War Intrigue (5 FEBRUARY 2013)
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
hugh everett— illustrating the branching of individuals in many worlds each time an observation is performed, in an early draft of his doctoral dissertation (1950s). Accessible at Read original documents of Nova's Parallel worlds documentary of Hugh Everett's work.
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.
Northrop Frye— "The Secular Scripture" and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991, p. 164
We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog ‘I’ that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.
julian jaynes— Book I, Chapter 2, p. 65-66
All this is just an analogy.
— Ch. 30 (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974))
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)* * The analogy between the sea squirt and the associate professor was first pointed out, I think, by the neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas.
daniel c. dennett— p. 177 (Consciousness Explained (1991))
The human mind delights in finding pattern so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
stephen jay gould— "The Rule of Five", p. 199
To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician 's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
thomas hardy— Ch. 2. (Far from the Madding Crowd (1874))
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.1 (1884 edition) p.28
The purpose of a conceptual model is to provide a vocabulary of terms and concepts that can be used to describe problems and/or solutions of design. It is not the purpose of a model to address specific problems, and even less to propose solutions for them. Drawing an analogy with linguistics, a conceptual model is analogous to a language, while design patterns are analogous to rhetorical figures, which are predefined templates of language usages, suited particularly to specific problems.
— Peter P. Chen ed. (1999) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. p. 295
To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
— Thomas Hardy (1874) Far from the Madding Crowd, Ch. 2.
By analogy to building architecture, we propose the following model of software architecture: Software Architecture = { Elements, Form, Rationale ] That is, a software architecture is a set of architectural (or, if you will, design) elements that have a particular form.
— Juliana Saraiva, Sérgio Soares, and Fernando Castor. "Assessing the impact of aosd on layered software architectures." Software Architecture. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. p. 344
Matters depending in our Courts are composed of an infinite number of special circumstances, and it therefore is as rare to find a precise correspondence between the facts of one case and those of another, as an exact resemblance in the face of one man to that of another. Therefore it is the wisdom of the sages of our law, by the analogy with other cases, to investigate their doubts, and thus to satisfy their judgments.
— Per Curium (Mallet, Twitden and Terrill, JJ.), Manby v. Scott (1672), 1 Levinz, 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th ed.) 455.
Nothing escapes God 's knowledge . This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun , which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
— Saint Ambrose, in Duties of The Clergy, p.11
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes . That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator .
— Susan Blackmore, in Human Nature | The Quarry Masonic Forum (16 August 2012)
I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable , and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.
— Erskine Bowles, in How US Can Avert Fiscal Cliff: 'We've Got Some Hope' (12 Jul 2012)
Let me give you an analogy; analogies, it is true , decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
— Sigmund Freud, in Personality (1998), p.5
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, in The Reformed Presbyterian magazine. Jan. 1855-July 1858, 1862-76 (1855), p.47
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul 's contact with the body.
— Muhammad Iqbal, in The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (22May 2013, p.108
Niels Bohr's model of the atom made an analogy between the atom and the solar system.
— Tijana T. Ivancevic, et al, in Complex Sports Biodynamics: With Practical Applications in Tennis 28 December 2008, p.191
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative .
— Peter Morgan, in The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back (18 October 2013)
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
— Elon Musk, in Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars (21 October 2012)
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
— Henri Poincare, in Analogical Reasoning in Children (23 October 2013).
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
— Herbert Read (1963), in Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism, p.315
