Talk:Analogy

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 * Life is like an analogy.
 * Aaron Allston, in Sven Lauer Knowledge Representation Summer term 2003


 * If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
 * Ian Anderson, in Ian Anderson chats about 'Thick As A Brick 2': For whom the bell Tulls (3 July 2013)


 * 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)


 * A kid living on the street is a bit like—and please pardon the analogy here—a weed. The longer he's on the street, the harder it is to pull him out by the root. We lose a lot of these kids. More than we save. And forget the weed analogy. It’s stupid because it implies that we are getting rid of something bad and preserving something good.
 * Harlan Coben (2009), in Gone for Good, in p. 50


 * 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


 * Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.
 * John Deacon, in John Deacon Interview (1977).


 * 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


 * Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want your kids to grow up. And you can't have it both ways. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also in a way a parent's worst nightmare: for them to not need you. So, how do you reconcile those two very strong emotions? You don't. You live with that problem. It's the real tragedy of parenting. And maybe there's some sense in which in art you can have it both ways whereas in life you can't.
 * Jonathan Safran Foer, in Those Things Tumbling Around Inside (2013)


 * "Forgive and Forget" (...Understand the Analogy) As her demeaning grips became tighter His emotional and mental well being lowered Well his heart bled and his soul began to wither Yet his spirit was able to unleash a rejuvenation process And is willing to forget and forgive And with No apology he doesn't understand the analogy.
 * Alfred Guajardo, in Al's Poem Zone (26 August 2010)




 * 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.
 * Werner Heisenberg (1949), in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory


 * 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


 * I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.
 * Mitchell Joachim, in Grow your own home with ancient and modern tech (28 September 2012)


 * Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
 * Charles Kennedy, in Charles Kennedy:Leader, MP for Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Liberal Democrat (15 April 2005)


 * The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.
 * Madeleine L'Engle, in A Circle of Quiet (1972), Section 1.3


 * Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
 * Henry Robinson Luce, in TIME, Volume 121, Issues 1-9 (1983), p. 36




 * While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
 * 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) (12 March 1998)


 * 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


 * 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)


 * If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
 * Henri Poincare, in Popular Science Mar (1913)., p. 215


 * 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


 * 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)


 * The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.
 * John Romero, in The future of games is freedom (20 July 2006)
 * 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


 * The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
 * Susan Sontag, in The New York Intellectuals Reader (2007), p. 266


 * Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
 * Hal Sparks, in Exclusive interview: Hal Sparks has a lot to say about Rock 'N' Roll (16 May 2012)

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 * 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, cited in Analogical Reasoning in Children

Discussion
What's going on with the Alikuzai and Mandelbaum "smuggle in assumptions" quotations? They're word-for-word identical.
 * Thanks for pointing this out. The Alikuzai piece is plainly copied from Mandelbaum, so I removed it. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)