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An historical example of simile used in science:
"[The law of conservation of energy was] like a sacred commandment".
Max Planck
Reported in Kuhn, T. S. (1987). Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. With a new afterword. The University of Chicago Press.
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