"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."

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Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

— Gian-Carlo Rota