digestive system is a chemical factory

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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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.