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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

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To generalize is to be an idiot. — William Blake
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most… — Henri Poincare
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know… — Vera Brittain
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,… — Bertrand Russell
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason… — James Hutton
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm… — D. H. Lawrence
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse. — Rudolph Valentino
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for… — Margot Asquith
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize… — James Ensor

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