army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 April 2012 05:13:52PM *  11 points [-]

I first encountered this in a physics newsgroup, after some crank was taking some toy model way too seriously:

Analogies are like ropes; they tie things together pretty well, but you won't get very far if you try to push them.

Thaddeus Stout Tom Davidson

(I remembered something like "if you pull them too much, they break down", actually...)