The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Context: There is, however, a much more convincing argument that needs to be put on the table before we really begin turning common sense upside down. It is the overwhelming reason to prefer science to ordinary beliefs, common sense, and direct experience. Science is just common sense continually improving itself, rebuilding itself, until it is no longer recognizable as common sense. It is easy to miss this fact about science without studying a lot of history of science—and not the stories about science, but the succession of actual scientific theories and how common sense was both their mother and their midwife.
“Common sense is the very antipodes of science.”
Edward B. Titchener, Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena (1972), p. 48
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“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”
Context: Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish."
Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
“It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare.”
On dit quelquefois, le sens commun est fort rare...
Philosophical Dictionary ('Sens Commun') https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Voltaire_-_Dictionnaire_philosophique_portatif,_6e_%C3%A9dition,_tome_2.djvu/209 (1767).
Compare Juvenal, Satires, viii:73:
Original Latin: rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa fortuna http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/juvenal/8.shtml.
Published translation in French (1731): Il est fort rare qu'on conserve le Sens commun dans une si haute fortune. https://books.google.com/books?id=lFBkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA335&dq=%22Le+sens+commun%22+%22fort+rare%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjepqeYtNfLAhUS3mMKHb30BdkQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22il%20est%20fort%20rare%22&f=false
English translation: For rarely are civic sympathies [alternative translation: common sense] to be found in that rank".
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
“I’m a very compassionate person (with a very high IQ) with strong common sense.”
" Donald Trump's IQ obsession, in 22 quotes https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/donald-trump-tillerson-iq/index.html" (April 21, 2021)
2013
Source: The Dragons of Eden (1977), Chapter 7, “Lovers and Madmen” (p. 192)
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 120 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
“Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.”
"You Should Face Up to Your Death, Says Author".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
Source: June 2021, Outrage after Pakistan PM Imran Khan blames rape crisis on women https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/25/outrage-after-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-blames-crisis-on-women