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If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn’t see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December...

—Jerry A.

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I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...

—Niels Bohr

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The words you can’t find, you borrow.We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.My life is in these books,...

—Gabrielle Zevin

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

—Yann Martel

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Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

—David Archuleta

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We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a...

—Asa Gray

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More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for ‘the logical basis of the selective theories of antibody formation’: Can the truth (the capability to synthesize...

—Niels Kaj

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He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.{Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss}

—He

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

—Richard M.

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Elms are dying all over the place, it’s Dutch elm disease. […] It came from America on a load of logs, and it’s a fungal disease. That makes it sound even more as if it...

—Jo Walton

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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

—Asa Gray

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

—Joseph Addison

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Longbottom, if brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.

—J.K. Rowling

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At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to him. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many...

—Robert G.

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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

—Jonathan Haidt

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I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the...

—Brian Selznick

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but...

—Plato

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According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide.For the teleologist an...

—Darwin

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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on...

—Thomas Jefferson

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truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

—Leo Tolstoy

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Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

—Bill Maher

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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to...

—Newton

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A good analogy would be that I don’t know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and rained on for nine months before they get a chance to sit in it. Moisture...

—Gary Ames

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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

—Robert G.

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Don’t you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about...

—Lisa Tawn

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To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click ‘I agree’.

—Bill Maher

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I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for...

—Peter Watts

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Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n’est pas plus une science qu’un tas de pierres n’est une...

—Henri Poincaré

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Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

—Terry Pratchett

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The analogy that I like to use is it doesn’t do a lot of good to buy a condo on the beach that the mortgage is so high on it you can’t put any furniture...

—Nick Saban

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Claiming “the budget can’t allow it” reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o’clock and they say “the kitchen is closed.” For years I would hear this,...

—Bill Maher

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Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

—Ryan Lilly

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I personally think the 1992 analogy has been overdone.

—Greg Valliere

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Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

—Olivier Magny

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Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers...

—Aravind Adiga

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Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our...

—Sheldon L.

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Just like literature, wine takes time to learn. Before having access to the emotion of a stunning poem or to the vigor of a captivating novel, we all had to go through a long initiation....

—Olivier Magny

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Life is like an analogy.

—Aaron Allston

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After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because Jesus replaces the Old Testament doesn’t mean that you should necessarily...

—Stephen Colbert

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Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with...

—Grove Karl

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You could use the analogy that tonight was what the doctor ordered. The outcome, the game itself, was like a B-12 shot. We’re feeling better.

—Mike Eaves

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The best restaurants are always down the side streets.

—Carla H. Krueger

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Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

—Thiruvalluvar

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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course...

—Herbert Spencer

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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates...

—Albert Einstein

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is...

—Mark Twain

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To use a poker analogy, if the deck is a bit stacked against you, spread the deck on the table and let everyone see the cards,

—Charlie Ergen

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Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

—Stephen King

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