The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
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
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
( ...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
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
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach 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
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber 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
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
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
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have… — Alice Schwarzer 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
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 museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — Claude Bernard 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
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the… — Freya Stark 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
