The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.