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Stuart Chase
(8 Mar 1888 - 16 Nov 1985)
American economist who was an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chase helped shape—and coined the name for—“A New Deal”. He was a prolific writer on a wide range of subjects on the human experience, economics, and semantics.
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Science Quotes by Stuart Chase (1 quote)
Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.
— Stuart Chase
As quoted in Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action (1939, 1949), 31. Hayakawa clearly specified the quote was “recently defined by Stuart Chase”. Some later sources incorrectly attribute to Hayakawa alone. Others even attribute to Einstein.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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