Pascal has been called the architect of modern civilization.

It went into Time magazine in 2001 as the new language of the 21st century.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well.

Why mountain rescue?

Impossible!

It is accordingly decreed that he be taken to Vatican Hill where it has been confessed he made his first preachment to be crucified and left there as a warning to all and any who henceforth wish to call themselves Christians.

So, then I thought a calculator is a metaphor.

So I think we have to change metaphors.

Chronic total occlusion is described as the last fortress of interventional therapy in coronary heart disease. The surgery success rate is around 70 .

And I think it's a nice metaphor also for the 21st century.

We turn facts into similes and metaphors, and even fantasies.

Metaphor matters because it opens the door to discovery.

And so I'm going to use, as the metaphor, this association quantum mechanics, which I really don't understand, but I'm still gonna use it as the process for explaining how it is the metaphor.

Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field are so great that he himself has become a metaphor.

... it'snowonderthey're a household name all over the world.

That goes without saying.

Nonsense!

Obviously!

Crude.

This is not a metaphor.

He's a hard boy to reason with.

Furthermore, to counsel, it quot is axiomatic that the Court of Appeal had a duty to enquire into the absence of the applicant during his appeal hearing, and that the hearing should not have continued until he had been informed and had been given the opportunity to be present quot .

Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

'For he's a jolly good fellow.'

That's the metaphor, the old metaphor.

James Geary, metaphorically speaking

A Metaphor for Obama

You're too stubborn to argue with.

The reason is pretty clear.

Really incredible.

So do not invent similitudes for God. Indeed God knows, and you do not know.

These are precepts of wisdom We offer to men, but only those who are rational understand.

Therefore do not ascribe equals to Allah indeed Allah knows whereas you do not know.

And We illustrate these examples for mankind and none except the knowledgeable understand them.

So strike not any similitudes for God surely God knows, and you know not.

And those similitudes We strike them for the people, but none understands them save those who know.

Propound not then for Allah similitudes, verily Allah knoweth and ye know not.

And these similtudes! We propound them for mankind and none understand them save men of knowledge.

So put not forward similitudes for Allah (as there is nothing similar to Him, nor He resembles anything). Truly! Allah knows and you know not.

And these similitudes We put forward for mankind, but none will understand them except those who have knowledge (of Allah and His Signs, etc.).

So do not cite the examples for God. God knows, and you do not know.

These examples We put them forward to the people but none grasps them except the learned.

So do not strike any similitudes to Allah. Allah knows whereas you do not know.

These are the parables that We set forth to make people understand. But only those endowed with knowledge will comprehend them.

So coin not similitudes for Allah. Lo! Allah knoweth ye know not.