Max Black Quote

Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.


Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy (p. 242), Cornell University Press. 1962


Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.

Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.

Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.

Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.