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Generalization Quotes

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Quoted in Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930)

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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

Arthur Kendall Getman, John Dewey, William James, Werrett Wallace Charters, Ralph M. Stewart (1937*). “Contributions of Ten Leading Americans to Education”

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

John Fowles (2009). “The Journals: Volume 1: 1949-1965”, p.433, Northwestern University Press

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

1865 An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).