This is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race in the past century is to put "common sense" where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labeled "discarded nonsense."


Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science - Mathematical Truth (pp. 17-18), McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1951

Eric Temple Bell Quotes

This is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race ...

This is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race ...

This is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race ...

This is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race ...