Adequate Quote by John Wilkins

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

— Jeanette Winterson

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

— Kurt Gödel

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different…

— Jeanette Winterson

Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department.…

— Colin Firth

I just don't believe in generalisations.

— Julian Fellowes

I hate all generalisations.

— Arj Barker

I take offense at that generalisation. Not all women sit around and obsess about men, as soon as my relationships are over, I move…

— Samantha Jones

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

— Agatha Christie