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

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

“Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.”

“In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.”

“Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.”

“In both jokes and dreams, Freud observed, meanings are condensed and displaced, things are represented indirectly or by their opposites, fallacious reasoning trumps logic. Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner "censor.”