Generalization Quotes

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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and… — George C. Williams
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by… — James G. Frazer
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might… — Seth Gabel
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start… — Jeffrey Jones
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white.… — Keegan-Michael Key
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a… — Florence Nightingale
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty… — Francis Crick
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert

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