"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

David Deutsch, American Scientist

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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

Charles D. Broad, British Philosopher

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"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

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"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."

Belief

"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

Obvious

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."

Heart

"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."

Help

"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."

Life

"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."

Discovery

"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

Duty

"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."

Experience

"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."

Belief

"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."

Experience