Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of metaphor used by a scientist:
"It is here that the investigation of the hidden powers of nature becomes a mine, every vein of which is pregnant with inexhaustible wealth, and whose ramifications appear to extend in all directions wherever human wants or curiosity may lead us to explore."
Sir John F. W. Herschel
Herschel, J. F. W. (1830). Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
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