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An historical example of a metaphor used by a scientist:
"Pavlov…called the digestive system a 'chemical factory'."
Ivan Pavlov quoted by Slava Gerovitch
Gerovitch, S. (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak. A history of Soviet cybernetics. MIT Press.
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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.
