science is a great building

Categories: Comparisons

An example of metaphor in scence writing:

"The totality of these connections [of the elementary concepts of everyday thinking with complexes of sense experiences] – none of which is expressible in conceptual terms – is the only thing which differentiates the great building which is science from a logical but empty scheme of concepts."

Albert Einstein

Einstein, A. (1994). Physics and reality (S. Bargmann, Trans.). In Ideas and Opinions. The Modern Library. (First published: 1936)

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.