James Gleick

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.

American Author

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

French Philosopher

Michael Tilson Thomas

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

American Musician

Frederik Pohl

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

American Writer

Herbert Read

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

English Poet

Emile Durkheim

Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

French Sociologist

Janet Yellen

One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

American Public Servant

James Henry Breasted

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

American Historian

Rene Girard

The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.

French Historian

Stanley Hauerwas

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

American Theologian

Understand when comparisons make sense; 'analogous' is used when things are alike in certain aspects, not in every way.

Context Matters

'Analogous' is often used in non-living contexts, comparing functions or roles between different entities.

Non-Biological Use

Clearly state the aspects that are analogous to avoid confusion; it's about specific similarities.

Clarifying Intent

In biology, 'analogous' refers to structures that appear similar but have different evolutionary backgrounds.

Evolutionary Clarity

Do not confuse 'analogous' with 'homologous'; they describe different types of biological similarities.

Not Interchangeable

Focus on the function or role when using 'analogous' in biology, not the form or origin.

Functional Similarity

 This increase in velocity will help make sure collisions have the appropriate amount of energy necessary to ensure book-dropping. This is analogous to increasing the temperature of the reaction mixture. Higher temperature means particles are moving faster. Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater likelihood of the reaction-causing collision.

How to speed up chemical...

 and give them the masses that we observe. So, this exciting picture is analogous to the one I showed you for the cell phone. We have the components and we have the rules of particle theory, as it's called, by which these all operate and give rise to the various things. Now, we actually think that we've only just

String theory and the...

 Maybe they didn't know what happens when you raise something to the zeroth power. Then you build on that in the next concept. That's analogous to -- imagine learning to ride a bicycle. Maybe I give you a lecture ahead of time, and I give you a bicycle for two weeks, then I come back after two weeks,

Let's use video to...

 but people further away will then ask what's going on. The result will be a clump in the crowd that moves across the room. This clump is analogous to the Higgs boson. It is important to remember that it is not that massive particles interact more with the Higgs field. In our analogy of the party,

The Higgs Field,...

 then, because of quantum tunneling, a bubble of this state could suddenly appear in a certain place of the universe at a certain time, and it is analogous to what happens when you boil water. Bubbles of vapor form inside the water, then they expand, turning liquid into gas.

Why our universe might...

 until they shut down completely. This is analogous to having a power failure in an area of the brain, a regional power failure. So the lights are out in parts of the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and the question is, are the lights out forever,

Andres Lozano:...

 Like your claim about rising global temperatures, these claims make a false analogy. You're assuming that because two phenomena share a characteristic, in this case warming, they are analogous in other ways,

Can you outsmart the...

 but they raised an analogous question. What force is driving all galaxies to rush away from every other at an ever-quickening speed? Well the most promising answer comes from an old idea of Einstein's.

Why is our universe...

 days working buttons and zippers four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffle to the order of events in this part of the afterlife you imagine something analogous to your

What Would Your Life Be...

 designed from the very beginning to to look inward to be focused on itself and to in a way that's analogous to the crystal palace to create an environment which is