Stephen Jay Gould
Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or even often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor—not because the new guideline will be truer to nature...but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent for conceptual transition. (264)
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Categories
Archives
My Other Blogs
On Attribution
I'm a writer and a librarian.
I license my own online work through Creative Commons.
When I cite books or websites, I link to them. When I use images, I add a pop-up title which gives attribution. Also, the image itself usually links to the source website.
Often the images link to very interesting source sites which I am nudging my readers to look at.
Have fun. Be honest. Give attribution!
I license my own online work through Creative Commons.
When I cite books or websites, I link to them. When I use images, I add a pop-up title which gives attribution. Also, the image itself usually links to the source website.
Often the images link to very interesting source sites which I am nudging my readers to look at.
Have fun. Be honest. Give attribution!
Photography
Recent Posts
Links
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
October 15, 2012 at 11:59 am
Wendy Clarissa Geiger
Wow, Michael…figure, lamp, light, pictures, no-artificial light…WOW….
October 15, 2012 at 1:59 pm
lyn
Stunning:
Grandmother E. Smith-Hinshaw’s Kansas fern table, a brass lamp, turn-of-century mirror, newly painted door, your shadow… a photo… stunning. Glad you selected THAT room! Thanks for being a guest at Quaker Universalists Annual Mtg.