I found this article through Arts and Letters Daily (see the sidebar for link). It's a great reminder that even scientists--with all the precise and seemingly exhaustive (but flattened) language they use to describe reality--still must resort to metaphor. Man still--even in this scientific age--must use symbols to try to grasp his world.
From the article:
"I love analogies most of all, my most reliable masters who know in particular all secrets of nature," Kepler wrote in 1604. "We have to look at them especially in geometry, when, though by means of very absurd designations, they unify infinitely many cases in the middle between two extremes, and place the total essence of a thing splendidly before the eyes."
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