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

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

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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."

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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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"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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"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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"Common sense often makes good law."

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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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"Have common sense and stick to the point."

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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."

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

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"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."

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"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."

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"I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it."

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"Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book."

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"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."

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