Science is all a metaphor.
Timothy Leary
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The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor—not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
Stephen Jay Gould
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
Morton Feldman
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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