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At best, metaphors are a useful mnemonic device. If they had any value or explanatory power, they'd be used in science. But they're not.
by pdog 9y ago
At best, metaphors are a useful mnemonic device. If they had any value or explanatory power, they'd be used in science. But they're not.
- blowski 9y agoI see scientists using them all the time. For example, Stephen Hawking has described the universe as being like the surface of a balloon.