Quotes about Analogy
This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
— Wendell Berry
String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way.
— Stephen Hawking
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
— Albert Einstein
As Placher well knew, there is no analogy from the side of the fallen creation that "works." None of the symbols, images, motifs, and themes "work" in any logical way, either as analogies or as theories to explain what God in Christ is doing on the cross.
— Fleming Rutledge
ÆLF (ÆLF) (which, according to various dialects, is pronounced ulf, welph, hulph, hilp, helfe, and, at this day, helpe) implies assistance. So Ælfwin is victorious, and Ælfwold, an auxiliary governour; Ælfgisa, a lender of assistance: with which Boetius, Symmachus, Epicurus, &c. bear a plain analogy.Gibson'sCamden.
— Samuel Johnson
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
— Albert Einstein