Science and common sense differ as cultivated fruits differ from wild fruits. Science sows its seeds of inquiry, and gathers the fruit. Common sense picks the fruit, such as it, is by the wayside. Common sense has no fields or orchards of knowledge.

A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull (Volume 2), Notes and Aphorisms (p. lvi), The New Sydenham Society. 1896