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).
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.
Proof by analogy is fraud.
bjarne stroustrup— Stroustrup, Bjarne. The C++ Programming Language. pp. 692.
Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as " Film is the score and the print is the performance.")
ansel adams— Sheff, David (1 May 1983), Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams, p. 226
Truly the eye was… …made to cast a lineament, a conducting wire between the most heterogeneous things. Such a wire, of maximum ductility, should allow us to understand, in a minimum of time, the relationship which connect, without possible discharge of continuity, innumerable physical and mental structures… …the key (of the mental prison, ed.) lies in a free unlimited pay of analogies… …one can admire today a canvas signed by Gorky , “The liver is the Cock’s Comb”, which should be considered the great open door to the analogy world.
andré breton— Introduction to the exhibition of Gorky’s first show', Julien Levy Gallery’, March 1945; as quoted in “Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof”, ed. by Matthew Spender, Ridinghouse, London, 2009, p. 258
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
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
thomas nagel— The View from Nowhere. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 16. ISBN: 0195056442
A parable is a form of writing that tells a story about common everyday things within the range of every individual's experience, and at the same time draws a subtle analogy between the ordinary facts of the story and the deeper meaning which lies parallel to the facts. Literally, the word parable means, "a comparison.
— Ervin Seale (1966) Learn to Live. p. 16
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
There, however, the medieval or early modern state assimilated most of them, although a significant number of distinctive ancient cultures persisted through such processes of integration Irish, Catalan. Norwegian and others (in Eastern Europe, the Greeks perhaps form an analogy).
— Gopal Balakrishnan (1996). Mapping the nation. London: Verso. pp. 79. ISBN 1-85984-060-4.
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, “Mathematical man” (1913)
Life is like an analogy.
— Aaron Allston, in Sven Lauer Knowledge Representation Summer term 2003
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)
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
Nationality is the miracle of political independence ; race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli, in Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics (1November 2010), p.99
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief , we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
— Lukas Foss, in About The Creative Process
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
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
— Dudley Field Malone, in "Aha!" Teaching by Analogy (2012), p.111
The business deal is one analogy that captures some features of Caspian energy that a comparison with the 19th century Great Game leaves out: three others are also instructive .
— Michael Mandelbaum, in "The Great Game Then and Now (Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, sponsored by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation."
I am my own worst enemy , suffocating soul that the devil won't claim. I don't if I believe in you anymore, but everything needs an analogy.
— The Color Morale, in The Color Morale - Living Breathing Something Lyrics
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 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)
Art is not supposed to change the world , to change practical things, but to change perceptions . Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
— JR, Street Artist, in Inside Out Baltimore (JUNE 13, 2012)
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
— John Searle, in The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence (2004). P.206
