"People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations" — Graham Greene

More Generalization Quotes

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• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and… — Madeleine Albright
• An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to… — Bertrand Russell
• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say… — Roy Lichtenstein
• The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a… — Hans Reichenbach
• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes,… — Frederick Soddy
• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike,… — Bertrand Russell
• We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories… — Unknown Author
• ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the… — Jerry Fodor
• There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman
• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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