A lot of it's common sense mixed with science.


Louisa Jaggar

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The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
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If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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There's a lot of science behind its health benefits.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
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Common sense is not so common.
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A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
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Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH
On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
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In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.
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VINCE MCMAHON
Common sense ain't common.
WILL ROGERS
If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER
We had a lot of young guys mixed with some older guys who just wanted to win.
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I've got a lot of mixed emotions about it.
DAVID MILLS
'Common sense isn't common place'.
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
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Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
Intelligence without common sense is like a rainbow with no curve. It's abnormal.
DEVLIN PAJARON
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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In the world of Investing, common sense is far from common.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
GIFFORD PINCHOT
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to
GEORGE SEATON
Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Love covers a multitude of sins…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty no...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man ou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my e...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Be worthy love, and love will come.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm de...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delig...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT