Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;"… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that… — George Soros Copy Share Image
People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we… — George Takei Copy Share Image
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks -… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
