Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Ackoff, Russell Lincoln and Center, University of Pennsylvania. Management Science (1967*), Decision Making in National Science Policy, Retrieved on 2014-01-21
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    21 JAN 2014

     Common Sense Does Not Predict

    Common sense ... has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.
    Folksonomies: prescience common sense prediction
    Folksonomies: prescience common sense prediction
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    Science predicts, common sense comes along afterwards.

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