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- 250g neodymium magnet can support metal the weight of a giant panda
- 417kg of rare earth minerals looks like a grand piano
- a beetle's mate can change significance like a stone on the path
- a chromosome is like a string of pearls
- a field called 'host-guest' chemistry
- a force is needed to maintain motion
- a high-frequency wave is like a Toblerone bar
- a jet tries to becomes a cylinder
- 'A Level'
- A level
- a moving electron digs a hole through the conductor
- a neurone tries to make contact with a neighbour
- a pentamer is a sort of antibody throwing-star
- a phthisical soldier is like a glandered horse
- a plant is like an animal turned upside down
- a priori
- a scientist sends forth groping feelers of thoughts
- a solid body is like an artefact
- absolute tonnes of nitrosamines are generated in your stomach
- absolutism
- abstract
- access courses
- accidental formation of molecules of life is like accidentally completing a jigsaw
- accumulative fragmentalism
- acetylcholinesterase waits patiently for a signal
- acids eats up metal
- postmodernism is like an acid
- acquired characteristics are inherited
- action research
- activated complex is like a window sill
- activity system
- ad hoc
- ad hoc hypotheses are a gang of crooks
- adenosine triphosphate is life's energy currency
- adenosine triphosphate is like a tiny molecular spring
- adrenaline makes requests
- advance organiser
- aether probably does not draw stones up into it
- AIDS virus hides in a cloak of cell membrane
- air flows faster over the curved surface of a wing
- air of paradox should be thin in science
- Al-Biruni
- al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq
- al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr
- Rhazes
- alchemical processes correspond to church sacraments
- alchemist without the damned earth is like a sailor without his ship
- alchemy is a type of midwifery
- alchemy only offered a doubtful spark
- Aleksandrov, Aleksandr
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- all reference-molluscs are equally valid
- allergic responses are like having different PIN codes
- alternative complement pathway is like a showering of hand grenades
- alternative conception
- misconception
- misconceptions
- alternative conceptions are like weeds
- alternative (conceptual) framework
- amphipods have a Swiss army knife of legs
- an animal's Umwelt is like a spider web
- an atom engages in an internal tug of war
- an atom or ion with a full outer shell cannot be ionised
- an experiment is a torch
- an immune response is like a fire
- an orbiting object is subject to balanced forces
- an organism is like a symphony
- analogue
- analogy
- analytical lenses
- analytic memo
- analytical pluralism
- anaphylaxis occurs when cells decide they do not like something
- anatomists analogised from woven goods to body structures
- ancient animals leave monuments
- Andes is one great wall
- animal magnetism flows within the human body
- animal seed contains all future generations of descendants
- animal spirits pass through the nerves to bring about sensation and motion
- animals and plants generate from seeds released by decaying bodies
- animals as automata are like thermostats
- animals unlike minerals and vegetables contain all four elements
- animism
- anonymity
- Antarctica is the heartbeat of the world
- anthropocentrism
- anthropological analysis does not set produce symmetrical crystals of significance purified of the material complexity
- anthropological insight is ethnographer's magic
- anthropological research site is not the sociological equivalent of a cloud chamber
- anthropology's course was given more precise coordinates
- anthropomorphism
- antiaromaticity is aromaticity's dark alter-ego
- antibodies are like harpoons or missiles
- antigen to antibody is not like paint to wall
- any metal could be generated from mercury
- anything given in Ricciolus would run upon a Ridiculous Absurdity
- appearance of culture was like a phase change
- aromatic molecules are happy with themselves
- aromaticity pays for making something unstable
- arsenic forces the stomach to defend itself
- arsenic is locked inside copper
- arsine separates itself from liquid
- arteries force the blood forward as though a rope had been twisted round them
- as her motion was swifter than the other planets she might be nearest the earth
- as with the building of an Egyptian pyramid the raising up of a continent consists of many events happening in succession
- ASCEND Project
- assembly of hemoglobin requires the presence of chaperone proteins
- associative learning impediment
- assumption of initial atomicity
- asteroid is trying to tell us about its history
- asteroids and comets attempted to deliver volatile substances to Earth
- asteroids were gobbled up greedy planets
- asthma is cured by drinking from the araguato monkey's hyoid bone
- astronomer treated stellar observations as if the road from Athens to Thebes were not the same as the road from Thebes to Athens
- astronomy limps and lurches and sometimes gallops
- at maximum dose lithium fills the body
- atmospheric air will always try to fill a void
- atom in a solid collects its fellows around it
- atom model was like a watermelon with electrons for seeds
- atomic electrons influence alpha particles as mosquitoes influence a charging elephant
- atomic energy levels are like a gear lever
- atomic energy levels are like rows in a parking lot
- atomic energy levels are like standing on a ladder
- atomic mechanics is like psychological analysis
- atomic model had baroque combination of components
- atomic nuclei can be content or agitated
- atomic nucleus tries to get rid of its excitation energy
- atomic ontology
- atomic size is like growth rings on a tree
- atomic size is like the spots on a giraffe's neck
- atoms and ions are more like gas giant planets than billiard balls
- atoms are like letters of an alphabet
- atoms are the bricks of the physical environment
- atoms are vortexes in the ether
- atoms can be indifferent
- atoms laid themselves in orderliness
- atoms of cold are tetrahedral
- atoms of uranium radiate energy of their own volition
- atoms search for dance partners
- atoms swim in the ether
- atoms try to climb out of magnetic trap
- atoms with eight electrons have full outer shells
- ATP contains energy-rich bonds
- augmented reality
- austenite does not want to change crystal structure
- authorship
- autodidact
- self-taught
- axiology
- Ayer, A. J.
- baboons can be robbers
- Bachelard, Gaston
- bacteria are bad
- Bacteria are happy to feed on hydrogen sulphide
- bacteria develop antibiotic bilge pumps
- bacteria think they will never be found at the gumline
- bacteria try to eat natural polyesters
- bacteria use a molecular scalpel
- bacteria were prevented from being the microbial horsemen of the apocalypse
- bacteriophages make sure bacteria do not dominate
- bacterium experiences molecular impacts as if in an excited crowd
- bacterium is like a tiny attack submarine
- bad air contains septic poisons
- Banca species are as if the Isle of Man had distinct fauna from the rest of the British Isles
- bands in prepared chromosomes are like GPS with poor satellite coverage
- bases in a gene are like pendants attached to a bracelet
- battery-of-tests principle
- battery recycling is like trying to reclaim jam and cream from a Victoria sponge after shredding
- BBC Inside Science
- bees marshall themselves as they think best
- bees realised meat was available and decided to stop being vegetarian
- bees used geometrical forethought to work out the best shape for honeycomb cells
- benzene has a hexagonal garment
- benzene has Jekyll and Hyde behaviour
- Bernal, J. D.
- Bertalanffy, Ludwig von
- Bessemer process was a sort of meteor
- Betelgeuse and its companion are like two car headlights seen from 80 000 km
- Betelgeuse is bloated
- Betelgeuse is like an imbalanced washing machine
- Betelgeuse is ringing at a changed frequency
- Betelgeuse shows petulant behaviour
- bifurcationists in the laboratory would be like atheists in the trenches
- bioorthogonal chemistry is a cousin of click chemistry
- bits of genome are like a coin in the bottom of your pocket
- bitterns had a happy marriage
- black box resembles a company's annual report
- black hole appears to evaporate
- black hole is the ultimate waste disposal unit
- black hole is wobbling like a bell
- black hole might be eating solar wind
- black hole sucks in space like a drain hole sucks in water
- black holes can compose
- black holes colliding in space are like icebergs colliding in the ocean
- black holes in merged galaxies sink
- black holes swallow light
- blastocyst is like a feral animal
- blended learning
- blood cells move about like pebbles caught up in the force of a torrent
- blood feeding mosquitoes have figured out how to get a giant protein-rich meal
- blood maturation is like wine fermentation
- blue stars are spendthrifts with lives spent in a riot of energy
- Bohr, Neils
- Neils Bohr
- bones are living leviathans
- bows and arrows used by Copernicus and Ptolemy were made of different materials
- bracketing
- brain area is like a junction box
- brain in Alzheimer's disease is stuffed with a deadly jam
- brain prodded by injection into bloodstream
- brain's processing function is to the human physiological response system like the nucleus in a cell
- brief encounter of X chromosomes is the mother of all one-night stands
- bright stars orbit the galactic centre like cream stirred into a cup of coffee
- British Science Association
- Brownian motion is like ping-pong balls bumping into a beach ball
- Bruner, Jerome
- building stones of atoms were discovered
- Bunge, Mario
- burning sulphur divides it into smaller sulphur particles
- Butterfield, Herbert
- butterflies can be shy
- caloric is involved in combustion
- calorie is holding on stubbornly
- cancer cells kind of slip in unannounced
- cancerous cells function selfishly
- canonical concepts
- capital was the nucleus and engine and pivot of the Indonesian state
- carving nature
- case study
- Cassirer, Ernst
- catalyst behaviour is like lowering the bar in a high jump competition
- catalyst is like a minister at a wedding
- catalysts enable nuclear chain reaction
- category error
- cathode rays were due to peculiar undulations of the ether
- causality is a signpost showing the direction for scientific research
- Cavaillés, Jean
- cells are biological atoms
- cells are built up like a Lego kit
- cells are busy cities
- cells can enjoy interacting
- cells die for a higher good
- cells discovered the advantages of communal life
- cells know what they need to do
- cells of the innate immune system are first responders
- cells periscope UL16-binding protein from their surface
- cells with the myotonic dystrophy mutation are like cities with riots
- centromeres eat their way away from the equator towards the poles
- chance need not be an evil ghost
- change of protein conformation changes a 'do not eat me' signal to a 'eat me' signal
- chaperone proteins
- Charles Darwin
- chemical bonds are like relationships
- chemical bonds store energy
- chemical elements are formed in the murder of neutron stars
- chemical elements are molecular
- chemical equilibrium is like substituting players in a sports game
- chemical 'messenger' molecules are the biological equivalent of the postal system
- chemical reactions occur to give atoms full outer shells
- chemicals work hard to reach the ozone layer
- chemistry triplet
- Chemistry World
- chemosynthesis creates energy
- chief scientific adviser to the government is a sort of Babel fish job
- cholera haunted the London Medical Gazette
- chromosome is like a music tape containing many songs
- chromosomes have their own aglets that maintain the integrity of genomes
- chromosomes take the initiative in cell division
- chunking
- cicadas are the earth's dandruff
- circular motion does not need a force
- citation index
- Clerk Maxwell considered the ether to be a reality
- climate change is the beast
- climates went South after Toba eruption
- clinical interviews
- Piagetian interview
- clock acts as an organism as long as it runs properly
- clockwork universe is expendable
- closed questions
- cloud chamber track is a footprint
- cognitive development
- intellectual development
- cognitive structure
- Cohen's kappa
- cold air battles steam
- cold dark matter clumps produce gravitational 'potholes'
- cold will force its way through gaps
- collision geometry is like fitting a piece to a jigsaw
- coloured rays blend like powder paint
- comb of bristle-like teeth found on each arm of the horse-shoe
- comet may be directed by magnetism as well as being attracted to the Sun
- comet particles excavate burrows in sampling aerogel
- comet tails contain levitating material
- comets are ejected from celestial bodies and move in straight lines
- comets are formed out of exhalations from the earth
- comets are the fluff of the solar system
- comets do their best to avoid adhering to the classic Solar System models
- comets grow up in a neighbourhood
- comets have social lives
- commitment
- compartmentalisation of learning
- complementarity in quantum mechanics is like a reference frame in relativity
- compound formation is like a marriage
- Comprehensive School
- computer app analyses neural network like an MRI scanner
- concept cartoon
- concept map
- concept to sense experiences is like ticket number to overcoat
- concepts
- conceptual analysis
- conceptual change
- conceptual shift
- conceptual development
- conceptual development is a dialectical process like science
- conceptual ecology
- conceptual framework
- conceptual integration
- conceptual structure
- conduction electrons are like a crowd of displaced persons
- confabulation
- confirmation bias
- confirmatory research
- confounding variable
- consent
- consequentialism
- conservation of energy is like a sacred commandment
- conservation of force conception
- conservation of mass in chemical reactions is like not distinguishing Eskimos
- consolidation
- constant comparison
- constant transactional calibration
- construct
- construct repertory test
- constructionism
- constructive alternativism
- constructivism
- constructivist pedagogy
- context-directed research
- contextual notion
- contingency
- contingent-constructivism
- contingent property
- controlled variable
- convulsions occur in stars walking their last mile
- cool air tries to push away the warm air
- cooled charcoal eats up gas molecules
- cooled glass tries to contract
- Copernicus marshalled the observations of famous generals on the battlefield of astronomy
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- copyright
- coral reefs probably grow like forests
- corners of the human genome are on steroids with tandem repeats
- corpus analysis
- correspondence principle was used as a sort of spare wheel
- cosmic inflation leads to bubbles like opening a bottle of fizzy cola
- country bees appear to be less cunning than London ones
- covalent and ionic bonds are like different kinds of human relationships
- covalent bond types are like eating in a restaurant
- covariate
- covert observation
- COVID is like a fire
- craters on the moon are a cosmic guestbook
- creation of living things is like raising water vapour from the sea into the sky
- critical point theory is like studying human maturation with decades as the interval
- Cronbach's alpha
- Crookes, William
- cross-sectional studies
- cross talk
- crust of earth is like a thin sheet of ice over a frozen pool
- crystals have imperfections just as people do
- crystals in minerals are like an encrusted statue
- cube is the father of the other regular solids
- cultural concepts are not like chemical composition or brittleness
- cultural organisation is like an octopus
- cultural patterns are sources of information like genes
- culture is integrated like the general theory of relativity whereas a social system is integrated like an organism
- Curie, Marie
- Curious Cases
- current reduces around a series circuit
- curricular models
- curriculum
- cyclic monomers back bite when subjected to ring-opening polymerisation
- Cypripedium labellum acts like a kitchen cockroach trap
- D.A.R.T.
- D.Litt.
- D.N.A. strands attract like magnets
- dark clouds threatened physics
- Darwin, Charles
- data analysis
- data analysis is painful like childbirth
- data are the scientist's real estate
- dative bonding is like borrowing library books
- dead metaphor
- dead metaphors
- death throes of a star are observable for only a few years
- deduction takes place in the bosom of scientific theories
- deep atmospheric convection likes to be over warm water
- deficiency learning impediment
- demonstrating in the laboratory is like taking a cycle ride
- dendogram
- deontology
- dependent variable
- describing science as a language is like taking cans for canned food
- diagnosing a patient whose haematocrit is falling by five points a day necessitates a shotgun approach
- diagnosis comes untethered from its conceptual moorings
- diagnostic assessment
- dialogic teaching
- diamonds weaken lodestones
- diatomic molecule is a discuss thrower that can spin only at certain speeds
- differentiation
- digestive system is a chemical factory
- diminished simile
- dinoflagellates use light to try to drive off predators
- direct instruction
- disc galaxy has roughly the proportions of a fried egg
- discovery learning methods spread like a virus
- discovery of radioactive heat was a battering ram
- discovery research
- distance of earth from the centre of the cosmos is as a few atoms of a visible body
- distillation separates spirit from phlegm
- divided stigma of flower licks the back of the entering bees
- DNA is a most extraordinary script
- DNA is a simple alphabet of just four letters
- DNA is like a railway track
- DNA is like an encyclopedia but metabolites are like a Twitter feed
- DNA is wrapped up like carefully stored Christmas lights
- DNA scaled to a ladder would reach Mars
- doing an experiment is like asking a friend to take a risk
- double blind
- double science
- drip-feed
- drum-like pedicel rotates like the hand of a clock
- drumskin wants to return to its neutral position
- dummy header
- dummy header2
- duvet cover in the wash is like a cell membrane
- each metal corresponds to a different planet
- early galaxy was like water in a whirlpool
- Earth achieved a lot before humans appeared
- Earth has a blanket of air
- earth rotates like a ball on a lathe
- Earth - she knows and is practised in the whole of geometry
- Earth turns around in the aether
- earthquakes are associated with meteors
- earth's magnetosphere is like a stone in a stream
- earth's true velocity is in relation to the ether
- eat me signals
- Ebola blocks the cell's emergency fast lane
- Ebola is a titan among viruses
- editorial screening
- Education in Chemistry
- effective learning experiences are like compounds located in the bonding triangle
- ego is like a cell nucleus
- Egyptian embalming techniques were like preserving pears in sugar
- Einstein, Albert
- electrical supply is like a waterfall
- electrolytes are like nuts and bolts
- electromagnetic force is like two footballers exchanging passes
- electromagnetic spectrum is an umbrella organisation
- electromagnets suck up huge currents
- electron in uniform motion produces a wake in the ether
- electron-positron annihilation is like a wild marriage
- electrons arrange to spin in opposite directions
- electrons circling the nucleus as planets might have mountains and oceans
- electrons dance around a cyclic transition state during electrocyclisation
- electrons in incandescent gases communicate energy to the ether
- electrons seek states
- electrons try to stay out of one another's way
- triad element
- element is eagerly trying to complete its outer shell
- elementary particles can be organised into kinship groups
- trace elements are like seasoning added to food
- embryology is at an embryonic stage
- embryonic development repeats the whole history of the ancestors
- emission control technologies sort of chew up pollution
- empirical formula is like a box of Lego bricks
- empiricism
- Empress Cixi learnt the circuit board of the Qing court
- Enceladus receives a vigorous massage
- encoding distortion
- endocrine system is like a Ferrari
- endorphins are cheeky little things
- endorphins are designed to relieve pain
- endothermic reaction is like pouring water into a sponge
- energy fights to free itself from radioactive golf ball
- energy has different manifestations like Vishnu
- energy is greedily taken up to fuel life
- energy is not conserved in nuclear processes
- energy levels are atomic fingerprints
- enquiry-based science education
- enrichment
- entropy is like shaking a box of ordered marbles
- enzymes are like workstations on a production line
- enzymes meet and capture substrates
- epigenetic inheritance is not supposed to happen
- epigenetic slate is wiped clean
- epistemology
- equivalence
- erklären
- Ernst Mach
- erythroblastic island
- erythroblastic islands are key players in red blood cell production
- erythrocyte membrane cytoskeleton protein is like a spring
- escaping high density gas is like a crowd leaving a burning theatre
- estimating temperature at core of sun is like calculating temperature inside a hot potato
- estimating the distance to a distant galaxy is like judging how far away an average-sized person is
- ether and chloroform are like a witch's familiars
- ether prevents the Moon falling into the Earth
- ethical development
- ethnographers face similar observational challenges to physicists
- ethnographic schemes are like the periodic table
- evaluating athletic potential by genetic tests is like drawing conclusions about a jigsaw picture based on a few pieces
- evaluative
- event horizon is a one-way door
- every existing organism is in a sense a fossil
- evolution is like a copycat
- exciting ions - like swinging a child - requires the right driving frequency
- executive functioning is like air traffic control
- exercising gives you energy
- expanded air would become fire
- expanse of salt as white as newly fallen snow
- expectancy effect
- experiment
- experiment to test whether a subtle aethereal medium quite freely permeates all the pores and passages of all bodies
- experimental science is mundane where philosophy is celestial
- expert witness performed test on human soup
- explaining celestial motion with vortices is like explaining the mechanism of a clock before inspecting it
- explanation consummates the marriage of reason and experience
- explanatory gestalt of essence
- expression of long non-coding RNA molecules is like producing sawdust when cutting branches into logs
- extended metaphor
- extra-scientific
- extracellular matrix is a sort of wallpaper paste
- extraterrestrial vapours are transformed into salts, clay and stones
- eye lens is a kind of secretary
- eyes are designed for using colour
- eyes like black holes in the sky
- face equivalence
- face validity
- facts are illiterate
- fading
- falling body accelerates as it gets near home
- false negative
- false positive
- Faraday, Michael
- female fish want males who can last until the babies are grown
- fermions are opera-lovers whereas bosons are rock fans
- ferrite does not like foreign atoms
- feverwort to treat fever and liverwort to cure liver disease
- Feyerabend, Paul
- Feynman, Richard
- fieldnotes
- final causes are like virgins consecrated to God
- fire is a chemical element released in combustion
- fireflies will murder and steal
- first shell electrons are always at the same distance from the nucleus
- fish hope some of their eggs survive
- fixed stars are intended to allow us to detect the motions of the planets
- Flamsteed, John
- Fleck, Ludwik
- flipped learning
- Flood, Robert
- flowers are nature's gentlest children
- fluids turned into dry earth by plants are replenished by the condensation of vapours from comets
- folk knowledge
- for the credit of dame Nature
- force will endeavour to free its companions
- forces acting on an object are always equal and opposite
- foreign DNA elements are a kind of fossil record
- formal operations
- fossil algae make little plastic jackets
- fossils are like a spilled watchmakers toolbox
- fossils are wrecks of nature
- foundation of science is not braced properly
- fragile X syndrome mutation is like snow covering roads and railway tracks
- fragmentation learning impediment
- Francis Bacon promised a study of cold
- Bartlett, Frederic C.
- from what I see of your head you are the man
- fruit-body is the plant's genitals
- fulgurites are 'fossilized lightning'
- full shells explanatory principle
- functional groups find the right partners
- G.C.S.E.
- G.C.S.E.
- galactic spiral arms are like breeding grounds for stars
- galaxies and stars are alive
- galaxies are like dots on an inflating balloon
- galaxies are like flocks of gas
- galaxies formed from the break up of great pancakes
- galaxy changes on astronomical timescales
- galaxy turns in space like a great wheel
- gamma-ray burst is due to feeding a black hole at a high rate
- Gamow, George
- gas bubbles work their way to the top
- gas is a swarm of atoms and molecules
- gas molecules are like frantic bumper cars
- gatekeeper
- Geertz, Clifford
- gene mutation acts like a document with pages glued together in a photocopier
- gene-selectionist and developmental-systemist perspectives are like thermodynamcs and mechanics
- gene was like molecular flypaper
- generalisation
- genes are better or worse timekeepers
- genes are like atomic nuclei in how they determine macroscopic structures
- genes are like Millwall supporters in Benidorm
- genes are well-planned structures
- genes exist to make more copies of themselves
- genes on a chromosome are like beads on a string
- genes struggle to contain selfish elements
- genetic control regions are like room thermostats
- genetic epistemology
- genetic shuffling is like cutting a pack of cards
- GeneXpert is the Nespresso machine of the TB tests
- genome contains fossil viruses
- genome resembles a musical score
- genomes develop as if built from standard LEGO sets
- germline cells are fresh and unexhausted
- Gerovitch, Slava
- gestalt
- explanatory gestalt of essence
- gifted
- giftedness
- Gilbert, William
- giraffes have worked out that trees communicate through hormones in the air
- giving up mechanical particle trajectories is like giving up optical rays
- Glanvill, Joseph
- glass wants to be 6 mm deep
- globin genes are completely silent in most tissues
- gold is like the cockroach of the periodic table
- governor balls are attached by rods like a pair of tongs
- Graham's law of diffusion is like running a race
- grain of salt contains millions of salt atoms
- grammarian systematisation is full of enantiomorphism
- graphene's whizzy electrons grind to a halt
- gravitation is like an uneven building
- gravity began to do its work after the scalar field had done its work and settled down
- gravity is a tendency to move to where the ether is rarer
- gravity is a tendency to rejoin mother
- gravity is trying to make every structure collapse
- gravity tries to pull a white dwarf to be even denser
- Great chain of being
- great discoveries grow like seeds cast by chance on fertile soil
- grounded learning impediment
- grounded theory
- groups of stars become separated when passing through dense traffic
- gut bacteria really enjoy foods rich in fibre
- haemoglobin becomes more avid for oxygen
- haemoglobin is like a four-seater car or an unstable four-man boat
- half a gramme of mass turned into energy at Hiroshima
- Halley's comet has a wanton tail
- handling editor
- hard core
- he was more remote than the moon because she sometimes covered and eclipsed him
- head of an octopus is like a train passenger
- hearing aids think some sounds are not speech
- heat dissipation is like wealth redistribution
- heat engines are like water mills
- heat is made up of caloric particles
- heat is sucked out of the piston cylinder in an engine
- heating is like moving noisy people
- heavenly bodies naturally revolve because they are spherical
- heavens resemble a luxuriant garden
- heavy bodies endeavour to reach the earth
- heavy stars have a sort of onion skin structure
- hell is the rainy season
- Helmholtz, Hermann von
- her finer threads are out of the reach of our senses
- hermeneutics
- Hermes Trismegistus
- heuristic
- heuristic method
- HF loves the idea of donating a fluorine to SbF5
- histological preparation appears like a sphinx to the novice
- history conjecture
- Holden, Alan
- Hooke, Robert
- hospital processed lithium like a small outback mining town
- Hoyle, Fred
- human brain resembles the cabbage
- human brains pollinate like desert palms
- human development is like a lightbulb giving rise to a massive office block
- human mind is like atomic physics
- humble fungi are on a mission
- Humboldt, Alexander von
- Hume, David
- Hund's rule is like strangers getting on a bus
- hungry nuclei grab neutrons
- hunt for mutation is like searching 65 freight cars for one bad orange
- Hutton, James
- hybrid conception
- hydrogen bonds are like those you have with colleagues
- hydrogen released by chlorophyll needs to rebond
- hydrogen solubility in metals is a new holy grail
- hydronium ion concentration and hydroxide ion concentration can be imagined on opposite ends of a seesaw
- hypotheses may be hatched by theories of other species
- hypothesis about abortive buds could be an abortive theory
- hypothesis-observation is like chicken-egg
- ice continues to be a source of cold till melted
- ideal universe matches ideal kingdom
- identical twins share fingerprints
- idiographic
- idiom
- idiosyncratic misconceptions are like rare medical conditions
- if Earth orbit was a perfect circle there would be no seasons
- if I was precipitate show me the solution
- if men were like atoms we could not detect them
- if the sun were a large pumpkin the Earth would be a pea
- if you could see with infrared eyes the atmosphere would be a brick wall
- ignoring modest differences on pretest scores is like considering polar bonds as covalent
- ignoring modest initial differences in experimental studies is like considering polar compounds as highly covalent
- ignoring modest initial differences is like considering polar compounds as highly covalent
- ignoring non-significant initial differences is like considering polar compounds as highly covalent
- illness is like falling into the doldrums
- imaginary numbers are amphibians
- imaging exoplanet is like photographing a firefly that is next to a lighthouse
- imaging lens of an electron microscope is its heart
- cells have preferences and make decisions
- immune cells may have unhealthy interests
- immune cells try to kill pathogens
- immune response sort of lights a fire
- immune system is an efficient army to fight invading pathogens
- immune system is like a computer programmed by old friends
- immunoglobulin A disables docking stations
- impact factor
- impetus is given to the projectile just as heat is given to water by a fire
- impetus lay in a projectile as heat stays in a red-hot poker after it has been taken from the fire
- implicit knowledge
- implicit learning
- in chemical equilibrium there is the same amount of reactants and products
- in earthquakes weak spasms precede the worst convulsions
- In Our Time
- in science luck favours the one who is tilling constantly the garden
- inactivated X chromosome is like a towel twisted till it is a millimetre in length
- incomplete courses of antibiotics set up antibiotic assault courses
- incremental generalisation
- indentations in gravel resemble sutures in the cranium
- independent variable
- indigenous science works like a kaleidoscope
- Indonesian capital city was the nucleus of the state
- infection is more revolution than invasion
- infectious vapors arising from certain marshes and marshy soils cause fevers
- inference uses forceps
- inflammable air might be phlogiston
- information technology is the twist in the Möbius strip
- ingredient cultural traditions were suspended in a kind of half-solution
- inherent property
- inheriting potentially fatal disorder is like tossing a 10p piece
- innate immune system is like antiviral software
- insidious alternative conception
- instinctive behaviour is the outcome of physical keys inserted into organic locks
- insulin encourages muscle cells to take in glucose
- intellectually honest
- inter-rater reliability
- interest theory is like Newtonian mechanics
- interest theory is like Newtonian mechanics
- interferons languished in a sort of scientific Siberia
- internal consistency
- internal heat of the Earth is for the purpose of maintaining plants and animals
- interplanetary dust particles are like the seeds of the Solar System
- interpreting X-ray data of protein structures was like archaeologists discovering rock inscriptions in an unreadable script
- interpretive research
- interpretive resources
- interstellar clouds accumulate charge like ordinary thunderclouds in our atmosphere
- interventional research
- intervention study
- intervention studies
- interview
- intuition
- invasive species are incredible hitchhikers
- investigating objects in space is like measuring the timbers of a ship
- ionic bonding is stronger than covalent bonding
- ionic bonding is the transfer of electrons between atoms
- ions with eight outer shell electrons are more stable than the neutral atoms
- iron oxide is molecular
- iron strives towards a magnet
- islands are bathed by the oceans
- islands are populated by flotsam and jetsam
- it is as if Nature prefers terminal states
- it was difficult to restore astronomy to her palace and kingdom
- James, William
- jigsaw learning
- jigsaw teaching
- jigsaw method
- jigsaw pedagogy
- jigsaw technique
- Herschel, John
- Johnstone's triangle
- junk DNA is like all the Ferrari staff that do not work on the production line
- Jupiter was named for his radiance
- 'just forces' conjecture
- just natural
- Kelly, George
- George Kelly
- Kelly's triads
- Kepler, Johannes
- Kepler was like a child trying out different arrangements of wild flowers
- Key Stage 3
- Key Stage 4
- Kircher, Athanasius
- knowledge-in-pieces
- KS3
- KS4
- Kuhn, Thomas
- Kupffer cells hang around like spiders on the walls
- labels for types of numbers are fossils
- ladder of nature ascends from minerals through plants and brute animals to humans
- ladder of nature became an elevator
- Lakatos, Imre
- land vertebrates are a small branch
- lander Philae was intrepid
- large matchbox full of interstellar gas would contain about a hundred atoms
- large planetesimals gobbled up smaller ones and asteroids
- largest elliptical galaxies are like a spider sitting in its web
- laser creates a sort of ladder through a Bose-Einstein condensate
- laser used as a kind of spark plug
- latent heat of vaporisation is analogous to latent heat of fusion
- latent variable
- lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay is like a full body biopsy
- lawfulness is the carrot that keeps science going
- lawn of bacteria
- laws of nature have been proven
- lead and other metals would be gold if they had time
- lead in radioactive rocks is like beer cans on Pacific islands
- leading questions
- leaf canopy captures sunshine
- learn of nature the ways and means which in her wisdom are adopted
- learners may perceive different science disciplines as if distinct sports
- learning bug
- learning impediment
- learning impediments
- learning demand
- learning doctor
- learning from teaching is like a ligand binding to the appropriate protein
- learning impediment
- learning progression
- learning quanta
- learning style
- learning to read X-rays is picked up by osmosis
- leaves go to sleep in order to escape the effect of radiation
- leaves on wind-blown branches are warmed like waved hot hands are cooled
- levity as a natural force
- librations cause the poles to describe paths similar to a twisted garland
- life claws its way up the tree of life
- life cycles of stars can be inferred like the life cycles of trees
- life has common chemical basis like the root words of a language family
- life is a choreographed dance of quanticles
- life is like the quantum of action
- life likes to break down sugars
- lifeworld
- light expels cold
- light from a distant galaxy gets lost on its way to us
- light reflects from particles in a body as from a field of corn
- light transmission is like a bird passing through branches
- light travels as impulses between particles in the ether
- light travels happily along
- light was imagined as a wave in the ether analogous to waves on the sea
- lightning is charge trying to ground itself
- LIGO's sensitivity is the equivalent of the width of a human hair in the distance of the nearest star
- Lillian McDermott Medal
- limbic system and brain stem are subterranean regions
- limiting reagent is like ingredient in short supply in a cafeteria
- lingua-chemica
- lipids have split personalities
- liquid molecules crawl like worms
- lithium chloride melts before your eyes
- lithium ions nestle in a happy house built of graphite
- lithium is eager to give up an electron
- lithium is happy to give away an electron
- lithium is the penicillin of mental health
- lithium metal is lighter than air
- lithium seeks out organs
- lithium was born at the start of the universe
- liver will break down anything it does not like the look of
- lodestone
- lodestone feeds on iron
- lodestone pines away with age
- logic and mathematics are fibres in the body of science
- logic and mathematics are the cement that binds scientific concepts
- long-term memory is like a corroded filing cabinet
- longitudinal studies
- looking at the night sky is like viewing from a forest
- luminiferous ether
- luminiferous ether is like sealing wax
- macrophage is anthrax's cellular carriage
- macrophages congregate like a massive Transformer
- macrophages deem some red blood cells too damaged
- macrophages survey red blood cells
- macrophages survey the splenic cords
- macroscopic level
- magnet can recognise an adulterous woman
- magnetic attraction is coition
- magnetic field from the Sun to the planetary material behaves like elastic strings
- magnified cells are like a honeycomb
- making the unfamiliar familiar
- man is a hierarchically stratified animal
- man reasoning without language is like a chimpanzee copulating without imitation
- manifold conceptions
- many bacteria have a sort of gearing system
- many great physicists studied the mechanical properties of the luminiferous ether
- Martian atmospheric gases sort of 'fingerprinted'
- massive stars are extremely prodigal
- mast cells explode like dirty bombs
- masters of astronomy should have imitated musicians who tune their strings
- matchbox full of material from a star about to supernova contains about 1000 tonnes
- material aspects of a living system are the struts and levers of a machine
- material chunked in memory is like a complex ion
- material forming the planets was in heavy traffic
- mathematician plays the role of a litmus test for a definition
- matter chases its own tail
- matter opposes change with all the means at its disposal
- matter waves leak from the atomic nucleus
- mean free path is like riding a bumper car
- meaningful learning
- meaningful learning is often like polar bonding
- meanings of symbols are as discoverable as the atomic weight of hydrogen or the function of the adrenal glands
- means of prophesying by manipulating the elements
- measles is like a heat-seeking missile
- mechanical system will find a way to lose energy
- mediation
- melded concept
- membrane ion channel is like a turnstile
- membrane leaflet
- membrane outer leaflet and inner leaflet are asymmetrical
- membrane protein CD47 is known to be a don't eat me signal
- memory consolidation
- men should get to grips with her
- menstruum nourishes the philosopher's stone
- mental illness is like getting into a rut
- mental illnesses result from an abnormal periodic table of the brain
- mental register
- meta-analysis
- metacognition
- metals are magnetic
- metals inside the core of the earth are boiling
- metaphor
- metaphysical naturalism
- meteors and meteorites are impetuous
- meteors give birth to craters
- method of triads
- methodological naturalism
- methodologists are like people studying anatomy and physiology to speak more eloquently
- methodology
- Michelson experiment effected physics like the blast of Joshua's trumpet on the walls of Jericho
- microbes behave deliberately
- microbes break down food with their arsenal of chemicals
- Microbes did not accept defeat
- microbes happily cling to spacecraft
- microbes need quality sleep
- microbes think about where to live
- microbiome is part of the immune engine room
- microbiome speaks many molecular languages
- microcomponents of matter collectively give new properties like the assembled parts of a watch
- microgenetic
- mind is to brain as substance is to molecules
- minimally guided instruction
- mitochondria as tiny batteries
- mixed methods
- mixing of ocean water is like ploughing a field
- molecular clock is used to calculate the antiquity of diverse species
- molecular energy gaps can be tuned across a huge window
- molecular framework
- molecular switches turn genes on and off
- molecule in liquid is like a little drunkard
- molecule returns to original position when molten sample is re-frozen
- molecule spits out fluorine atom
- molecules bend and twist like tree branches in the wind
- molecules can be like gloves or socks
- molecules can be very unhappy and nervous
- molecules in a gas have a high old time
- molecules in a solid are like angry dogs on short chains
- molecules of different conformation prefer different reaction pathways
- molecules pleaded allegiance to Newtonian mechanics
- molecules want to escape the destabilising feature of antiaromaticity
- mollusc was the king of nature billions of years ago
- monkey is concerned about lack of protein in diet
- monoclonal antibodies are like demented postal workers
- monoclonal antibody is haute couture immunotherapy
- monoclonal antibody paints a bullseye on cell surface
- Monty Python
- moonbeams promote rotting
- Moore, Patrick
- moral development
- moral rights
- Moseley, Henry
- mosquitoes feel rubbish if they eat a massive meal just after waking
- moths perform as marriage-priests
- moths thought switching to eating clothes would offer a better life
- motor impulses may be arranged into melodies
- mRNA stop signals are like LEGO roof bricks
- multicellular and acellular slime moulds are like bubbles that clump together or join into one big bubble
- multiple models
- multiplicity
- multiplist
- muscles cells soak up blood sugars like a sponge
- mushroom is just the apple on the fungal tree
- mutation is like a mistake in a knitting pattern
- mutations are sort of the raw material for natural selection
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis is content to make itself inconspicuous
- mycorrhizal fungi is like fibre optic cables
- myotonic dystrophy messenger RNA acts like a kind of sponge
- myotonic dystrophy provides the grit in the genetic oyster
- NASA
- natural attitude
- natural experiment
- natural killer cells act as sentinels
- natural killer cells can be placated
- natural killer cells plan their killings
- natural kinds
- natural theology
- naturalistic research
- naturalistic fallacy
- nature can show concern
- Nature changed her plan in order that more seeds might be produced
- Nature contrives to outwit us
- nature does not always prostrate her beauties to the naked view
- Nature does not erect a continent of land among the clouds to show her power
- nature does not grant her favours to the cold-hearted
- nature does not waste energy
- nature has a fecund womb
- nature has great laboratories
- nature has not varied her plan of organisation
- nature herself determines values measured
- nature herself has imposed a limit on causal descriptions of phenomena
- nature is a pregnant mine
- nature is lazy
- nature like a watch has hidden workings
- nature ordained laws for our moral happiness
- nature planned for seed burs to become attached to passing animals
- nature plays her symphony of meaning on a clavier of environments
- Nature sows her broad fields
- nature transformed elements all by herself
- nature will look at the forces, configurations and energies
- Navaho curing process is like osmosis across a membrane
- nearly all of the human genome is junk DNA that is inert
- negative analogy
- nerves are to wires as blood vessels are to pipes
- nerves can speak loudly or stop talking
- nervous system as a telephone switchboard
- nervous system is a puppet-master
- neurodiversity
- neurone is like an automatic ballot machine
- neurones speak to each other
- neurotransmitters carry messages within the brain
- neutral questions
- neutral zone insinuates itself
- neutralisation leads to neutral products
- neutrinos are very shy
- neutron star resides in stellar graveyard
- neutrons are like dark horses
- neutrons could multiply like rabbits or bacteria
- neutrons do not like to be compressed
- new scientific instruments enable an armoury of experimental methods
- news of vaccine spread like a virus
- Newton, Isaac
- Newton was a detective
- Newton's theory of light was like a punch-drunk boxer
- Newton's universe should be an island
- next night at her rising they found her different about one degree
- nineteenth century anthropologists pieced together elaborate jigsaw puzzles
- noble gases have the highest ionisation enthalpies because their atoms have full shells
- nomothetic
- non-coding RNAs act as gatekeepers
- novelty effect
- nuclear chain reaction is like an avalanche
- nuclear DNA is like something the height of Everest packed into a golf ball
- nuclear fission is like cellular fission
- nuclear fission makes energy
- nuclear physics is modern alchemy
- nucleic acids act as genetic moulds
- nucleons are like sardines in a can
- nucleus discards neutrons to stave off fission
- nucleus is like the brain of the cell
- nucleus will twist while trying to hold onto its protons
- null hypothesis
- null learning impediment
- nuts contain thousands of shoeboxes
- nylon molecules are like strands in a rope
- objects are smeared around a black hole event horizon like oil
- observation
- observations are trimmed with theoretical shears
- observations of the parallax of Mars will give his distance
- observer effect
- observing a cell nucleus is like revealing invisible writing
- occult
- Ockham's Razor
- octet rule
- octet rule framework
- On the Magnet
- On the Origin of Species
- once a stellar family is separated we cannot put them together again
- one conservation law swallowed others
- one mole of marbles would cover the earth to a depth of 50 miles
- only godlike circular movements allow heavenly bodies to orbit with regular periodicity
- ontological commitments
- ontology
- open questions
- optical fibre is spaghetti-like
- optical mining sweats water from asteroids and comets
- optimally guided instruction
- optimum level of simplification
- orbital circle of moon has four hinges
- orbiting body endeavours to recede from the centre
- ORCID
- ores develop from seed like an embryo in the womb
- our galaxy to the average is like a half-crown to a honey-bee
- our star has the responsibility for sustaining life on a planet
- our sun was lonely before the planets were formed
- outbreak of disease is like a breach in a force field
- outer layers of the sun are a sort of blanket
- outer shell of carbon atom will always be looking for two oxygens to complete itself
- outermost shell of the Earth is like a massive jigsaw
- oxygen atoms are shaped like doughnuts
- oxygen jumps onto hydrogen and carbon
- oxygen likes to combine with things
- oxygen makes the sky blue
- oxygen seizes upon carbon and silicon in molten pig-iron
- P-O-E
- p-prim
- pairs of supermassive black holes hum
- paradigm
- Parker Solar Probe speed like flying from London to New York in less than 30 seconds
- particle tunnels through a hill
- parts of a broken magnet desire to be united
- passing of heat was considered analogous to the sinking of a weight
- Pasteur, Louis
- pathogenic microbes will look for a new host
- pattern of political power was like radio waves from a transmitter
- patterns of gene activity were pointing to a kind of biological cut-and-paste
- patterns on brain scans resemble Captain Scarlet's Mysterons
- Pavlov, Ivan
- pearls are congealed dew
- pedagogic learning impediment
- pedagogy
- peer review
- peer tutoring
- people exhibit naturalistic fallacies as bees fly
- people interfere with each other like waves
- perforin behaves like a Trojan horse
- personal construct system
- personal construct theory
- personal constructivism
- personalised vaccine unmasks and flags cancer cells
- personification
- perturbation of the ether accounts for refraction, dispersion, double refraction, absorption and the emission of light
- petrified trees were like Lot's wife
- Ph.D.
- phantom metaphors
- phase space
- phenomenology
- philosophy is part of the scaffolding employed in constructing scientific buildings
- phlogiston
- phlogiston had weight
- phlogiston instantly revives dead metals-restoring them to life
- phlogiston may sometimes possess the power of levity
- phlogiston might have negative weight
- phlogiston was a chemical substance with colour and odour and weight
- phlogiston was the wrong road
- phlogiston weakened the repulsion between substance particles and ether
- photoelectric effect is like shooting with different guns
- photon chooses its path
- photon decides which state it is going be in
- photon has a life cycle with birth and death
- photon knows how thick a window is
- photons are like backpacks
- photons select the path which will take them most quickly to their goal
- photons were 'born' entangled like twins
- phrenology
- phrenology is like the astronomy of Copernicus
- physical anthropology was smash-and-grab style research
- physicist cut through the Gordian knot of the planetary theory
- physicist identifies as a quantum black dot
- physicists disagreed on whether the ether gets displaced or just vibrates
- physics cannot be distilled by induction
- physics is like an organism not a machine
- physics likes mathematics
- Physics World
- phytoplankton and faecal pellets rain down through the ocean
- Piaget, Jean
- pioneering toxicologist is part of the DNA of modern forensic science
- Pirie, Norman
- placenta acts like a gatekeeper
- plagiarism
- plague is like the rain
- Planck, Max
- planet participates in the motion of the sphere to whose surface it was attached
- planetary systems soak up angular momentum
- planets are carried by epicycles eccentrics or other circles
- planets are intended to continue their revolutions
- planets are made from ether
- planets are set at different distances from the sun according to their densities
- planets can be stolen by another star
- planets move around the earth embedded in concentric spheres
- planets were like the rear lamps on bicycles
- PLANK
- plant and animal bodies contain a steady invisible flame
- plant rostellum is like a boat
- plants allocate their resources
- plants photosynthesise during the day and respire at night
- plants realise when under high stress
- plants want to be rigid and upright
- platelets attempt to repair damage by expelling complement protein complex
- platinum group elements migrated to where the iron was
- plutonium is spark plug in hydrogen bomb
- POGIL
- Poincaré, Henri
- scaffolding POLES
- political power spread out as radio waves spread from a transmitter
- pollinia from rein orchids eagerly place themselves where they hope to gain their wish
- pollution can ferry influenza
- polymer backbone modification is like editing
- polymers have lifecycles and could be depolymerised at the end of life
- pools of dissolved lithium salts are like a disturbed artist's palette
- Popper, Karl
- Popper-Kuhn debate
- population
- portfolio of protective antibodies can be built
- positive analogy
- positive heuristic
- positivism
- post-formal
- postpositivism
- PPAR-𝜸's promiscuous pocket is vulnerable to hacking
- pragmatic notion of giftedness
- pre-nuclear age was like living in subzero temperatures
- predatory journal
- prerequisite knowledge
- pressure on submersible was equivalent to the weight of 2 SUVs on a postage stamp
- preternatural
- principles are fixed compass points
- private speech
- problem of induction
- processes of life are like those found in a chemical factory
- professional phagocytes
- projectile will abruptly fall to earth in a sheer vertical drop
- Propionibacterium acnes adores consuming fat
- protective antigen is a muscled henchman
- protein talks to the brain
- proteins act as cellular gatekeepers
- proteins act like molecular swivels or molecular hinges
- proteins and amino acids and water desired a calm welcoming environment
- proteins appreciate the roles of their peers
- proteins are upgrades like matches
- proteins build up from CENP-A like adding LEGO bricks in a particular order
- proteins can be fickle and capricious
- proteins recognise and respect the need for difference
- proteins respect each other
- Protestantism had an elasticity
- proton decays into a neutron
- proton pumps are like tiny merry-go-rounds for ions
- protons are attracted by an electronic fur coat
- pseudo-explanations are like false pearls
- pseudoexplanations
- pseudonyms
- assumed names
- PTNC
- Ptolemy, Claudius
- Ptolemy's starry sphere was a cosmic jewel box
- pulsar acts on companion like a fire hose on a pile of sand
- pulsating stars are like pendulums of different lengths
- PVC is a close relative of polyethylene
- Pygmalion effect
- Pythagorean model shows nature is economical so must be right
- Pythagorean representation of Nature answers all her appearances
- Q methodology
- Bell's split is shifty
- QBism is to science as Cubism was to art
- qualitative research
- quanticles
- quantum/classical is like baldness/hairiness
- quantum formalism is like attempting to breathe in space
- quantum mechanics is an embarrassing intruder in the camp
- quantum physics is pianistic where classical physics is violinistic
- quantum world is seen through classical glasses
- quark does not feel the strong force much till it tries to escape from the nucleon
- quasi-experiment
- questionnaires
- radiation inducing mutations is like bombing
- radioactive particle may hang around for several half lives before giving up the ghost
- radium mimics calcium
- Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
- random control trial
- randon control trials
- RCT
- R.C.T.
- randomisation
- rate of reaction is like rate of production at a factory
- rationalist
- raw data need to be pruned
- raw data should be carefully cooked
- reactant molecules are like wrestlers
- reaction stopped by base-eating cannibals
- reader generalisation
- realist stage
- reality is a beacon winking in the remote distance
- receptor on cell surface is like a magic key
- red blood cells are built to travel
- red blood cells endure a death of a thousand cuts
- red blood cells have limited arsenals
- red blood cells must not adhere to the vascular tree
- red light is like feathers whereas ultraviolet is like bullets
- reductio ad absurdum
- redundancy in communicating information is like extra layers of clothing
- reflexes can operate in peaceful republics
- reinforcement
- relationships are like cell division
- reliability
- Renaissance
- repertory grid
- replication
- reports of unidentified superconducting objects
- representationalism is a disease infecting physicists
- research questions
- research schedule is like a split-brain
- researching the development of life is like inferring a play from the last few lines
- resonance hybrid is like a mule
- response rate
- reticulocyte count is a very good friend in evaluating anaemias
- retroviruses hiding in the genome might escape
- Rheticus
- rhetoric of conclusions
- rhetorical experiments
- rhetorical research
- ribosome to mRNA is like a bead on a thread
- rocky planets condensed like raindrops in a cloud
- Room 5
- roots of science feed in the soil of human life
- Rorschach test is a fluoroscope into the psyche
- Rorschach test is like an X-ray picture
- Rosetta spacecraft hibernated for several years
- Rosetta spacecraft might get utterly confused and make mistakes
- Rosetta spacecraft was plucky
- rostellum partially closes the mouth of the nectary like a trap placed in a run for game
- rotation of the Galaxy proved beyond doubt
- rote learning
- RSC
- rupture of crust is like fracturing a long bar of steel
- rusting of iron is murder
- Rutherford, Ernest
- S.I.
- safety glass is like a sandwich
- salt marsh is like a big trifle
- salt molecules are kicked out of supersaturated solution
- sand wants to form a slope
- Saturn is like a gateway drug
- Saturn may have devoured his children
- scaffold
- scaffolding
- scholars have a kind of magnet in the mind which tends to draw out data that confirms assumptions
- scholasticism
- scholastics' attack on Aristotelian teaching was like filling the gap in one jigsaw puzzle with a piece out of a different puzzle
- school students behave like the phases of matter
- Schrödinger wave lives in configuration space
- science advances like a column of troops
- science and philosophy serve as the dynamometers for human spiritual energy
- science-as-a-jigsaw puzzle
- science…is a bit like having a jigsaw puzzle
- Science in Action
- science is a great building
- science is like an army that needs generals as well as soldiers
- science learning doctor
- science provides nourishment for reasoning beings
- science resembles carrying and fitting stones to a building
- scientific concept
- scientific dialogue is like a game of football
- scientific research is not like drawing prizes at a lottery
- scientists quench their thirst for knowledge at a fountain
- scientists should be like bees and not ants or spiders
- sea-urchins lead a contemplative life
- seasonal river siphons populations
- second law of thermodynamics is a terroristic nimbus cloud
- secrets of nature are exhorted from her
- seeing atoms is like looking at moving golf balls on the surface of the moon
- selection pressure summarises many reproductive outcomes just as gas pressure summarises many molecular motions
- selection theory is like a Tibetan prayer-wheel
- self-induction is an actual inertia of the ether
- semipermeable cell membrane is like a chain link fence
- sensory organs serve as a sieve
- shadows of his satellites passing over his body
- sharing understanding is not like communication between computers
- she alone of all the planets refers her revelations to the centre of the earth
- she has confirmed Mercury's variety by an unchanging order
- she is an icon and she is a legend
- she knows and is practised in the whole of geometry
- shellfish and some plants arise by spontaneous generation
- shortening of the telomere is like the fraying of a shoelace
- silent genes
- silicon is happy just to combine with oxygen
- simile
- simple sulphureous substances contain phlogiston
- skin cells are like tiny chameleons
- skin gradually forms on molten lead and tin
- slices of data
- smoke of an ignited body seeks to ascend
- snails build houses
- snowflake imitates precisely the skeleton of the octahedron
- social kinds
- social media follower count is like the cosmic microwave background radiation
- socio-scientific
- Socratic dialogue
- sodium and chlorine atoms form regular salt crystals
- sodium atom electron goes to a chlorine atom to form a molecule
- sodium borohydride is modern lemon juice
- sodium chloride dissolves as NaCl molecules
- solar magnetic field is like salt and pepper
- solar system is an autocratic state rather than a democracy
- solid matter is a magnificent building
- some antiaromatic molecules have been tamed
- some comets are pilgrims
- some genes just live to jump around
- some men endeavour to pull all the stars around in the ether as though they had put chains upon them
- some planets are marauding
- some pulsars spew out radio waves
- some regions of junk DNA are like sleeper agents
- some retroviruses are now genomic fossils
- Some strains of bacteria prefer to live in tumours
- some worker bees are like lorry drivers
- something has got its foot on the accelerator pedal of the universe
- sometimes scientific discoveries occur as if by spontaneous generation
- Sonic hedgehog gene is a general purpose tool
- sort of magnetic prison is used to imprison deuterium
- soul of an organism resembles the movement of a clock
- souls are made of a fifth element related to aether
- sound is propagated instantaneously through solid air particles
- source of scientific problems is its birth
- space-time to mechanics is like a language to the truths it expresses
- spacecraft attempt to go to Mercury
- spacecraft flight path was like a cosmic pinball game
- spacecraft 'sniffed' the asteroid's scent
- spacetime was flattened like a prune placed in water
- specialist sciences are branches of a unitary tree
- species evolve to adapt
- species in the polymer kingdom have backbones that can be modified by skeletal editing
- species make reasoned choices to change lifestyle and behaviours
- spectral lines are atomic signatures
- spider webs are found in fly interchanges
- spindle apparatus has something to hang on to when trying to pull the chromosomes apart
- spindle apparatus that does not disassemble is like a fire appliance with its ladder extended
- spiral curriculum
- spleen is multi-talented
- split between classical and quantum is shifty
- splitters and lumpers are the two feet of science
- spontaneous concept
- spontaneous emission of light is similar to radioactive decay
- stable superheavy elements seemed like ghosts
- stacked human cells scaled to a banknote would reach beyond the moon
- stage theory
- Stahlian chemistry dissipated like a morning mist
- star breaks up like a gigantic Catherine wheel
- star formation spreads like a forest fire
- star is as transparent for neutrinos as a windowpane is for light
- star runs out fuel like a housewife runs out of coal
- star was lying hidden between the horns of the moon
- stars and planets are eternal
- stars and planets are living beings like humans
- stars are born in groups
- stars burp
- stars Castor and Pollux are partners
- stars have rational minds
- stars may have retinues of planets
- stars orbiting the galactic centre bob and down like the the needle of a sewing machine
- statistical significance
- steam engine is a genie under permanent control
- stellar X-rays are like a flag being waved
- STEM
- stem cells given a kick
- stimulated recall
- strong acids have pH1
- strong anthropomorphism
- strong nuclear force battles electromagnetism
- structural proteins are molecular scaffolding
- structure of flower is like instrument used for guiding a thread into the eye of a needle
- structure offers biology an Archimedean fulcrum
- student learning may follow a reaction profile
- submicroscopic level
- substances can be chemical relatives
- substances get heavier when burned because fire particles attach to the burned matter
- substantive learning impediment
- sugar melts when placed in water
- sulphur nanoparticles are bound in the cathode in a sort of spiderweb network
- summer occurs when the Earth is nearest the Sun
- sun burns faster when convex side of plano-convex lens is towards him
- Sun commands things to tend towards himself
- sun is a lantern which is the lamp of a very beautiful temple
- sun is like an emperor who does not hurry from city to city
- sun's heat sucks water from the oceans
- superglues stick around
- superheavy elements are chemistry's unicorns
- supernova is a million million million million times as violent as a explosion that would destroy a city
- supernova is the death-agony of a star
- supernovae are exhausted stars rekindled by comets falling into them
- suppressing explanation in science is like killing the golden egg hen
- surface abnormalities on red blood cells are polished away
- swallowing salt releases chlorine in the stomach
- symbol systems are to social life as the genic helix is to the development of the organism
- symbol systems are to social life as the genome to the development of the organism
- symbolic level
- symbols of the serpent wriggled and twisted over chemical writing
- syn addition is like a UFO returning a cow
- synchrotron radiation from star which 'died' is 75,000 times more powerful than the Sun's energy output
- syphilis is a daughter of leprosy
- systematic review
- systems of religion act like scattered rays of light brought to focus in a lens
- T cells become tired and exhausted
- T cells sniff other cells
- tacit knowledge
- tail of a comet ascends away from the sun like smoke that ascends in a chimney by the impulses of the air in which it floats
- talented
- tar boils at a hundred degrees
- target knowledge
- tautology
- teacher demonstrations are like miracles
- teaching-learning is like the national grid supplying power for domestic electrical appliances
- teaching model
- teaching move
- teaching needs to be customised like laboratory techniques
- teaching sequence is like the primary structure of a protein
- teaching analogy
- teleology
- telescope carries the eye nearer the object
- telescopes always show him more than half illuminated
- telomere lengths can fall over the cliff edge
- temporary moon is like a leaf caught in whirlpool in a stream
- terrestrial particle might masquerade as space dust
- terrestrial system is adapted to a certain end
- the antibody's tailpiece acts like a cattle prod
- the biosphere has learned to recycle phosphorus
- the carbon skeleton of an organic molecule clothes itself
- the Doppler effect is like swimming away from or towards the shore
- the Earth and Sun produce offspring each year
- the Earth is trying to cool down
- the Earth's crust is its rind
- the electron shells of heavy atoms are like electron soup
- the environment decides how long D.N.A. survives
- the foundations of the edifice of science need contuual renewal
- the genetic code is a written text
- the geometry of Newton was like the bow of Ulysses
- the gravity of dark matter likes to bring everything together
- the infinite monkey cage
- the invention of differential calculus was like the steam engine
- The Life Scientific
- the magnetic field is a sphere of coition
- the microbiome is like a community of chemical factories
- the mind is operated by springs
- the nature of science
- the Nobel prize is awarded to the fathers not the baptisers of remarkable ideas
- the nucleus is the brain of the cell
- the partial differential equation is the mistress of theoretical physics
- the path to knowledge must be made smooth and beaten and often ascended and descended
- The Principia
- the purposes of stars are unknown
- the skeleton is a framework of the most curious carpentry
- the skin acts like a handkerchief
- the Solar System is like a city
- the star that went supernovae was very massive
- the strong force is like love
- the theory of natural selection was carefully built stone by stone
- the underground world is like a house
- theoretical perspective
- theoretical sampling
- theoretical simplifications should not be brutal amputations
- theories are beliefs
- theories are guesses
- theories are like true love
- theory is just an opinion
- theory is like a myth
- theory-ladenness of observation
- theory of mind
- theory of personal constructs
- there are hidden correspondences and influences in nature
- there are means to read the annals of a former earth
- there is a discrete but incomplete layer of ozone in the atmosphere
- there is an exchange rate between work and heat
- there is little cross talk between haemoglobin genes
- there is something which remains constant
- there was a brilliant Pleiades of neurologists in Frankfurt
- there's a whole zoo of different stars
- thermionic valves are like early steam engines
- thermobaric bombs suck in oxygen
- thick description
- think aloud
- Thiomargarita magnifica is Godzilla of the microbial world
- third electron shell is filled by 8 electrons
- thirty-four circles explain the ballet of the planets
- Thomson dissected the delicate body of the atom
- Thomson, J. J.
- thought experiment
- ticks think about when to have a meal
- receptors like tiny hands grab moving neutrophils
- to captivate nature and make her subserve our purposes
- to cross a pn junction holes have to climb a hill
- tobacco-mosaic virus is like a solenoid
- total internal reflection can be frustrated
- trace elements are the spice in the soup of life
- traditional ecological knowledge
- transcription
- transverse section of mineral resembles typographic characters
- treasures are concealed beneath Nature's unbroken soil
- trees want to grow and reproduce
- triad
- (trialkylsilyl)acetylene is like a giant umbrella-shaped protecting group
- triangulation
- triple science
- true experiment
- trust changes form like energy
- tuberculosis, glanders and syphilis are cousins
- tuberculosis is a cunning disease
- tug of war for Io is like bending a paperclip back and forwards
- tumour cells try to evade the immune system
- typhoid fevers were due to miasmas formed from rotting vegetation
- typology
- typology of learning impediments
- U-238 acts like water in wet wood
- Uexküll, Jakob von
- umwelt
- uncertainty principle
- uncoordinated hypotheses are like protoplasm
- underdetermination
- underground methane tries to get to the Earth surface
- uniformitarianism is like bookkeeping
- unit of analysis
- universal aether may be densest nearest the Sun
- universe will have been arranged optimally like a clock mechanism
- unstable atom is like a miser
- unvaccinated people are like fish in a barrel
- uranium bomb did not need to worry about imploding
- uranium has a molecular structure
- urea and uric acid are metabolic halfway houses
- useful ambiguity
- V.L.E.
- valency conjecture
- validity
- van Leeuwenhoek, Antonie
- vaporising an earth-bound asteroid is a Hail Mary approach
- vapour field takes notice of crystal shape
- vascular tree
- vegetable souls
- velocity of light is like the quantum of action
- venous blood behaves like a fluttering frightened hen
- Venus and Mercury mingle with the radiance of the sun and free themselves
- Venus might be called the twin sister of Earth
- Venus sits on a sphere which rotates independently as it moves with a sphere that rotates around the earth
- verstehen
- very subtle aether pervades and fills all things
- vicarious form of consciousness
- view of galaxy restricted by a sort of fog
- vignette
- Villemin, Jean-Antoine
- virus is well versed in dark arts skills
- virus mutations are to escape antibodies
- virus particles do not bother to unite into chromosomes
- virus particles hide beneath a cloak
- virus thinks England and Scotland are the same country
- virus will attempt to survive
- virus will find ways to infect vaccinated people
- virus will try every combination of mutations
- viruses like Autumn and Winter
- viruses try to hide
- vitalism
- entelechy
- vivisection
- volcano should be considered as a spiracle
- volcanoes are the breath-pipes of Nature
- volcanos send up columns of smoke like signals of a new period of violence
- voluntary informed consent
- von Uexküll, Jacob
- Vygotsky, Lev
- water droplets are really chemical dynamos
- water gets sucked into a flask
- water hyacinths are choking Lake Victoria
- water molecules are like people in an excited crowd
- water on comets and asteroids may have a different flavour
- water voles are the missing Mars bar of the food chain
- water wants to move towards South America
- Watt, James
- wave mechanical model is like a power boat
- wave-particle duality is like watching a television screen
- we are built like houses
- we are but limited in the art of increasing the cold of bodies
- we are ignorant of the first springs of nature
- we can see the gravitational footprints of dark matter
- we cannot see the first springs and wheels that set the rest a-going
- we have a climate on steroids
- weak anthropomorphism
- well-tested theory is like a highly complex organism
- Welsh quarry offers window on Ordovician
- Weyl, Hermann
- white dwarf steals from its companion star
- wicked bees that cheat flowers are unworthy members of society
- wind farms rise like daffodils in Spring
- winkle mistakes centrifugal force for gravitational force
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- working memory
- working memory is like a triglyceride molecule
- world picture of physics contains ether waves
- worldly matter is composed of four elements
- worm-holes nearly as large as swan-quills
- X-rays originate in undulations in the ether when cathode rays are stopped
- Y7
- Y8
- Y10
- Y11
- Y12
- yeast can be asked to produce silk
- young crayfish can be generated by distilling adults
- zone of actual development
- zone of distal development
- zone of proximal development
