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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stereotyping is their fuel, as generalization-free world would end their rule. — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for… — Jenny Hoyston Copy Share Image
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world -… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image