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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley
Science, Common Sense, Logic
Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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

Thomas Huxley
Beautiful, Science, Common Sense

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
Science, Common Sense, Sound
Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology”, Concept Publishing Company

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Huxley
Science, Common Sense, Common
'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'The Method of Zadig'

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas Huxley
Cutting, Science, Common Sense
"On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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