The psychologist William James observed that a native talent for perceiving analogies is...the leading fact in genius of every order. The centrality and the ubiquity of analogy in creative thought have been noted again and again by scientists, artists and writers, and understanding and modelling analogical thought have emerged as two of the most important challenges for cognitive science.
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