
"Lingering Still".
Volume Two (2010)
Crosse v. Seaman (1851), 11 C. B. 525.
"Lingering Still".
Volume Two (2010)
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense…”
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
“That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law.”
Writing for the court, Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43 (1957)
Judicial opinions
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”