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Common Sense Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at…
- Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
- 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…
- Science is simply common sense at its best.
- Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
More Common Sense Quotes
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
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- Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. — Charles Baudelaire
- Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
- Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. — Bob Beauprez
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail… — Joseph Addison
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley
- Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce
- Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. — Josh Billings
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings