Common Quote by Bertrand Russell

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or…

— Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

— Nancy Pearcey

Science is simply common sense at its best.

— Thomas Huxley

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of…

— Albert Einstein

Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

— Peter Medawar

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

— Lin Yutang

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Science ... is organized common sense.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould