It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer 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
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking 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 idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we… — Peter Senge 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
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov 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
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
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in… — Susan Forward 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
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
