An example of analogy in a scientist's writing:
"In fact, when studying human culture different from our own, we have to deal with a particular problem of observation which on closer consideration shows many features in common with atomic or psychological problems, where the interaction between objects and measuring tools, or the inseparability of objective content and observing subject, prevents an application of the conventions suited to accounting for experience of daily life. Especially in the study of culture of primitive [sic] peoples, ethnologists not only are, indeed, aware of the risk of corrupting such culture by the necessary contact, but are even confronted with the problem of the reaction of such studies on their own human attitude."
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Using the word much as it is used, in atomic physics, to characterise the relationship between experiences obtained by different experimental arrangements and visualisable only by mutually exclusive ideas, we may truly say that different human culture are complementary to each other. Indeed, each such culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent potentialities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety."
Neils Bohr (2010) Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (first published 1961). Dover Publications, Inc.
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