Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

It is this at its most basic that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

If we reject science we reject the common man.

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality race and language. I have been doubly lucky being accepted as a member of both.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other and achieve common development and that south Asia will enjoy peace stability and prosperity.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy freedom justice and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.