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An historical example of metaphor used by a scientist
"In a famous lecture before the Royal Society, [William Thomson/Lord Kelvin] warned of two 'dark clouds' threatening to darken the heavens of theoretical physics."
Ernst Schwenk
Schwenk, E. (1994). My name is Becquerel.
[The 'clouds' were relativity and quantum theory.]
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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.
