“Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.”
“stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.”
“A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it’s just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it’s named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur. ”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”