Matthew Arnold on Common Sense

There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.

“I like to say, the universe doesn’t care about our common sense.  We have to force our ideas to conform to the evidence of reality rather than the other way around.  And if reality seems strange, that’s okay.” -Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss, from his Big Think interview  

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei (born on this date in 1564)

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”- Gertrude Stein (born on this date in 1874)

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” -George Washington Carver (born on this date in 1864 – we think)