E. O. Wilson Quotes About Common Sense

• [Los científicos... nunca pudieron adivinar la naturaleza de la realidad física más allá de la pequeña esfera alcanzable por el sentido común sin ayuda. Nunca funcionó nada más, ningún ejercicio del mito, la revelación, el arte, el trance o cualquier otro medio concebible; y a pesar de la satisfacción emocional que proporciona, el misticismo, la sonda precientífica más fuerte en lo desconocido, ha arrojado cero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Common Sense, Intuition, Earth

• Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

  E. O. Wilson

  Creer, Pensar, Ideas

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