Thinking metaphorically
- Aristotle believed that the person who could see resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them was a genius.
- If unlike things are really alike in some ways, perhaps, they are so in others. Underwater construction was made possible by noticing how shipworms tunnel into timber by first constructing tubes.
- Einstein used the analogies of everyday occurrences to explain abstract principles.
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