Generalisation Quotes

• An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, History, Perfection

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

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• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  Saffron Burrows

  People, Important, Desire

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• 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

  People, Misery, Miserable

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• 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

  World, Wonder, Whole

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• Todas las generalizaciones son falsas, incluida ésta.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

  Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Two, Investing

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Feb 12, 2015

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• No dejes que las acciones de unos pocos determinen lo que piensas de todo un grupo. Recuerda que no todos los alemanes eran nazis.

  Erin Gruwell

  Groups, Germany, Way

  Los escritores de la libertad, Erin Gruwell (2007). "Diario de los escritores de la libertad (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them", p.53, Broadway Books

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Passionate, Unions, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

  Kurt Gödel

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• In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Air, People

  "Escrito en el cuerpo". Libro de Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

  John Wilkins

  Needs, Adequate

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• I hate all generalisations.

  Arj Barker

  Odio, Odio

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• Algunas personas llegan a ser directoras pasando por el departamento de cámara y no hay muchas mujeres en ese departamento. Las que hay tienen que demostrar que son uno de los chicos, creo. No quiero meterme en problemas con generalizaciones, pero creo que es una observación justa.

  Colin Firth

  Chicos, Pensar, Gente

  "Then She Found Me - Entrevista a Colin Firth". Entrevista con Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• La riqueza científica tiende a acumularse según la ley del interés compuesto. Cada nuevo conocimiento de las propiedades de la materia proporciona al científico físico nuevos medios instrumentales para descubrir e interpretar los fenómenos de la naturaleza, que a su vez proporcionan los fundamentos de nuevas generalizaciones, aportando ganancias de valor permanente al gran almacén de la filosofía natural.

  Lord Kelvin

  Filosofía, Medio, Derecho

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• It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Exercise, Science, Discovery

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• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Mind, Principles

  "Science and the Modern World". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", 1925.

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• El creciente tecnicismo de la terminología empleada es también una seria dificultad. Se ha hecho necesario aprender un extenso vocabulario antes de poder consultar con provecho un libro, incluso en un departamento limitado de la ciencia. Este cambio, por supuesto, tiene sus ventajas para los iniciados, al asegurar la precisión y la concisión de la exposición; pero tiende a estrechar el campo en el que un investigador puede trabajar, y no puede dejar de convertirse, en el futuro, en un serio impedimento para las amplias generalizaciones inductivas.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Libro, Ciencia, Vocabulario

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• 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 don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  Taio Cruz

  Thinking, Class, Use

  "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.

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• The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

  George Saunders

  Data, Troops, Doe

  "Just who is this Magna Carta fellow?" by George Saunders, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance.

  Enrique de la Beche

  Science, Views, Progress

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• It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Delusion

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• No creo en las generalizaciones.

  Julian Fellowes

  Creer, no creer

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