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• It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences… — Henry De la Beche
• The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of… — George Saunders
• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that… — Saffron Burrows
• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music,… — Taio Cruz
• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney
• It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead
• I just don't believe in generalisations. — Julian Fellowes
• In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson
• I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly… — Agatha Christie
• It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley
• Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall

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