A Quote by William Osler

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

William Osler

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William Osler
Canadian - Scientist
July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919

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 any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

David Deutsch

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

David Deutsch

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Lord Chesterfield

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

Theodora Goss

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

Lyall Watson

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Talib Kweli

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Robin S. Sharma

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Erma Bombeck

Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

Edward Kasner

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis D. Brandeis

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

Clive James

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

Iris Apfel

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.