Generalized Principle

In Money & You, we always hear about generalized principles.

"The word 'generalization' as used in the literary sense means 'very broad'. It suggests trying to cover too much territory - too thinly - to be useful. The literary men say 'this is too general'. In the mathematical sense, however, the meaning of generalization is quite different.

The mathematician or the physicist looks for principles which are persistently operative in nature, which hold true in every specific case. If you can find principles that hold true in every case, then you have discovered what the scientist calls a 'generalized principle'."

(from Utopia or Oblivion)