Falsehood Quote by Ian Hacking

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.”

— William Blake

All generalizations are false, including this one.

— Anonymous

“All generalizations are questionable.”

— Sandor Schuman

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

— Kurt Gödel

“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose…

— Alan F. Chalmers

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

— William James

Observation always involves theory.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.”

— John Himself

Observations always involve theory.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

— Claude Bernard