Abstract Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to do, then…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than…

— John Keats

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are…

— Augustus Hare

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

— Zig Ziglar

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

— C. S. Lewis