It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music,… — Taio Cruz Copy Share Image
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
