Random Analogies
"The diversity of chemical behavior results from only about 100 different elements and, thus, only 100 different kinds of atoms. In a sense, the atoms are like the 26 letters of the alphabet that join together in different combinations to form the immense number of words in our language. But how do the atoms combine with each other? What rules govern the ways in which they can combine? How do the properties of a substance relate to the kinds of atoms it contains? Indeed, what is an atom like, and what makes the atoms of one element different from those of another? "
"Gehry's architectonic masterpiece appears to be a metallic scarf flowing frozen in motion in the strong winds of Elciego. Waking up to this and the vineyards doused in the morning sun is like going into another dream world that seems too surreal to be grasped as reality."
"A city is like an organism," said IBM Corp. computational biologist Robert Prill, who is among those at the company investigating ways to better collect and analyze these immense new public-health genome databases. "It has a circulating system consisting of the movement of people."
