Howard Jacobson

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

British Novelist

John D'Agata

Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a 'genre' if, when we read it from different angles and under different shades of light, the differences between it and something else start becoming indistinguishable?

American Writer

Chip Conley

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

American Businessman

Richard Dawkins

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

English Scientist

Noam Chomsky

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

American Activist

John McDonnell

The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.

British Politician

Randy Pitchford

We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.

Kevin Kelly

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

American Editor

Aaron Allston

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

American Novelist

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

English Writer

Use when two things look so similar, telling them apart is hard.

Visual Similarity

Implies a need to look closely to notice any differences.

Close Comparison

Highlighting the lack of distinct or unique features.

Identical Features

In scientific contexts, it stresses the need for specialized knowledge to distinguish.

Technical Precision

Points out the limitation of human or technical observation.

Observation Limits

Used when differences exist but are too small to be noticeable.

Tiny Differences

 we interested is constraining the amount of dark matter in the universe that's on the x-axis and the amount of dark energy on the universe that's on the y-axis everything within one of these ellipses is this is indistinguishable from one model from the other and so we want to make those ellipses as small as possible

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 And even though the film didn't make any money -- barely broke even, I should say -- I witnessed something amazing, which is that the audience, the global audience, was mesmerized by this apparent magic. You know, it's Arthur Clarke's law that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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 but a brief tour of marine life shows us just how diverse sex really is. It does not always involve strictly female and male individuals with differently sized sex cells that fuse internally. Many algae, for example, have sex cells that are indistinguishable in size.

The wild sex lives of...

 while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain. The catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind, but you'll hardly know the difference. Your experiences will be indistinguishable from reality. Life's natural ups and downs

Would you opt for a life...

 a new moment in human development, where the lines between artificial intelligence and human intelligence blur, where computing and consciousness become almost indistinguishable and advanced technologies help us solve the 21st century's greatest

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 And our voice is indistinguishable from how other people see us. It is a mask that we wear in society. But our relationship with our own voice is far from obvious. We rarely use our voice for ourselves; we use it as a gift to give to others.

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 gone out and colonized the rest of the world. And together with the methods to date these genetic differences, this has led to the insight that modern humans -- humans that are essentially indistinguishable from you and me --

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...

 adhesive pads on the end of the toes were flattened so much that they seemed to melt into the bark and the whole animal pressed itself so closely to the tree that it was almost indistinguishable from it even the

Attenborough Finds a...

 skin is nearly indistinguishable from the sand and coral surrounding it it's an amazing adaptation in addition to excellent camouflage stone fish claimed the title of most venomous fish in the world

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 as well as whether the particle is matter or antimatter. While the two are normally indistinguishable, their opposite charges enable them to be detected with the help of a magnet.

Indistinguishable

Not able to be recognized as different or separate.

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Not clear enough to be seen, heard or recognized.

Often appears as...

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