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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.


Thomas Huxley

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CHAPMAN COHEN I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ug...
DAVID MAMET Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It...
ALAN LESHNER Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or do...
RICHARD DIAZ President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew Mah...
PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that dev...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veter...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veter...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A lot of it's common sense mixed with science.
LOUISA JAGGAR Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Life is a beautiful disease. Death is an ugly cure.
WOHI PURANA Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
KEDAR JOSHI Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
IMMANUEL KANT Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
WILL DURANT I’m inclined to think that the scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY And here I think one has an enormous area in which the ultimate revolution could function very well ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What an impossible and miraculous and hideous thing this was. An ugly plan hatched by an ugly boy no...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was an ugly win, a tough win, whatever you want to call it. But I'd rather have an ugly win than ...
DAVID BENNETT Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
EDWARD W. HOWE A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
ED HOWE Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a ...
ALBERT J. NOCK Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minute...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized ri...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized r...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY [Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen...
RICHARD DAWKINS An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had...
SUSAN WIGGS Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen...
PATRICK LENCIONI If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime yo...
MARGARET CHO The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all ...
ERNST MAYR This may seem like common sense to most folks, but there's really been no literature or science wher...
LEN LICHTENFELD Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the ent...
GIAMBATTISTA VICO Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.
ALICE HOGAN An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is o...
HERBERT SPENCER I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it ...
DARON MALAKIAN Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that...
SUZY KASSEM Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the c...
MICHAEL BEHE He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
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THOMAS HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enab...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.
AMIT KALANTRI An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is...
JOHN GREEN An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
JOYCE MEYER Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.

Art is a casual pursuit of significance. VERA NAZARIAN What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory. It's as good a...
GREGORY FORBES A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
KARL KRAUS Life is a beautiful disease. Death is the ugly cure.
WOHI PURANA And it is of course true that pharmacologists are producing a great many new wonder drugs where the ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI No win is an ugly win. At the end of the year, they all look beautiful.
AARON ROWAND On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
KALIFER DEIL Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have...
OSCAR WILDE Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many w...
BILL NYE Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
ANONYMOUS Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
W. C. FIELDS No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has ...
MICHIO KAKU Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illo...
CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have...
JOHN MASEFIELD Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.
AMIT KALANTRI

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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
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