Generality Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
— George Ade
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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
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
— Edmund Burke
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
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...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
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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
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It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
— David Hume
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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
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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
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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality
— David Hilbert
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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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