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Generalization Quotes by Peter De Vries
- I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
- He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking…
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- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
- Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein
- [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on… — Frederick Soddy
- We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore
- ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the… — Jerry Fodor
- There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
- It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer