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Comment author: gregconen 04 April 2010 04:52:19PM 12 points [-]

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

WIlliam Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Comment author: gwern 01 May 2010 01:34:09AM 2 points [-]

One I got while reading Jaynes's Probability Theory recently:

"Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation."

-- Laplace