Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile used in science writing:
"Thanks to the new dissectors prepared to press sharp steel into slimy viscera, it became understood that the lens of the human eye is not in fact the organ of sight, only its enabler, a kind of secretary, sorting incoming information into order for executive processing by the brain."
Hugh Aldersley-Williams (2020) Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the making of science in Europe. Picador.
Read about examples of science similes
Many examples of science similes are listed in 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
