On Analogy (1960-1969)

"As every mathematician knows, nothing is more fruitful than these obscure analogies, these indistinct reflections of one theory into another, these furtive caresses, these inexplicable disagreements; also nothing gives the researcher greater pleasure." (André Weil, "De la Métaphysique aux Mathématiques", 1960)

"Analogy is even slipperier than logic." (Robert A Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land", 1961)

“Science fiction is, very strictly and literally, analogous to science facts. It is a convenient analog system for thinking about new scientific, social, and economic ideas - and for re-examining old ideas.” (John W Campbell Jr., “Prologue to Analog”, 1962)

"When a science approaches the frontiers of its knowledge, it seeks refuge in allegory or in analogy." (Erwin Chargaff, "Essays on Nucleic Acids", 1963)

"Analogy serves to provoke certain types of questions which can, on investigation, lead to the recognition of more comprehensive ranges of order in the archaeological data." (Lewis R Binford, "Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking: The Use of Analogy in Archaeological Reasoning, American Antiquity Vol. 32 (1), 1967)

"Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms." (Eliphas Levi, "Transcendental Magic", 1968)

"It is probably no exaggeration to say that all of theoretical physics proceeds by analogy." (Jeremy Bernstein, "Elementary Particles and Their Currents", 1968)

"More than a burial ground for unacceptable ideas and wishes, the unconscious is the spawning ground of intuition and insight, the source of humor, of poetic imagery, and of scientific analogy." (Judith Groch, "The Right to Create", 1969)