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An example of an analogy used to explain a scientific idea:
"…how could the Earth and the other inner planets – Mercury, Venus, and Mars – ever have been formed? Well, certain quite rare materials did not stay in gaseous form. They condensed out of the gas as solids and liquids in a manner analogous to the formation of raindrops in the clouds of the terrestrial atmosphere."
Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.)
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