"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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"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

Common sense, Result, Skill, Want

"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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"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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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"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

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

Belief

"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."

Circumstance

"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."

Money

"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."

Belief

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

Duty

"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."

Society

"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

"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

"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