...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have… — Gilbert Tennent Copy Share Image
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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