Common sense died once science explained how it worked
Evidence
Il buon senso che un di fu caposcuola Or nelle nostre scuole i morto affatto. La scienza, sua figliola , L’uccise per veder com’ era fatto .” (Giusti, Epigrammi .) Giuseppe Giusti (1808 50) was a radical poet and satirist, who combined a fierce hatred of reaction and restoration with an old-fashioned Enlightenment rationalism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2709
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- Common sense once carried real experimental merit but now has far less. (similarity 0.82)
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