Categories: Comparisons
An example of a metaphor used in public science discourse:
"…you get the cortex which is your higher centre, then you've got some of these subterranean regions like the limbic system which does emotion and memory, and the brain stem…"
Dr Jules Montagu (consultant neurologist and author) was talking on an episode of the BBC radio/podcast series 'Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind')
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
