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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…
- Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was…
- 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.
- The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
- 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.
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