Generalisation Quote by Kurt Gödel Download Open image “All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.” — Kurt Gödel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generalisation
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I… — Taio Cruz Copy Share Image
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image