Generality Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment… — Aristotle
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. — George Ade
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. — Edmund Burke
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant… — Harry Reasoner
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the… — Eric Temple Bell
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the… — Albert Einstein
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. — William Penn
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead… — Gilbert Tennent
Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability,… — Boris Beizer
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But… — Claude C. Hopkins
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and… — Lionel Trilling
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

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