#meta

Love is metaphysical gravity. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#gravity #love is #metaphysical

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#every #feel #metal #most #option

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#bad #bit #drag #metal #plastic

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#i #metaphysic #music #only #want

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computational #hope #i #make #metaphor

Science always uses metaphor. ↗

— James Lovelock

#metaphor #science #uses

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent