Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexicohalf United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands-a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories and the way stories are very subjective. How we tell some things and leave other things out in the way The Princess Bride is or The Wizard of Oz is, which both have a framing device.
The true enemy of man is generalization.
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
