“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic”
“Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne”
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”
Norman O. Brown
“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
