Top 28 Occam Quotes
#1. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.
J. Budziszewski
#2. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
Francis Crick
#3. Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So
Harlan Coben
#4. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#5. Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.
Karen Marie Moning
#6. I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.
Tom Stoppard
#7. Occam's razor," she said. "Going up makes more sense.
Peter Clines
#9. Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.
Nick Lane
#10. When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
I. J. Good
#11. Of course, logic is not the only tool used in debate, and it is helpful to be cognizant of the others. Rhetoric likely tops the list, followed by concepts such as the "burden of proof" and Occam's razor.
Ali Almossawi
#13. Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.
John Scalzi
#14. You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.
Sophie Hannah
#15. With Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea.
John Crowley
#16. I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood
Natalie Portman
#17. The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
Michel De Certeau
#18. How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
Jonathan Lethem
#19. Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
Yehuda Levi
#20. Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
#21. Annie stared into the flames for a while and then cleared her throat. "Has it occurred to you that maybe there's actually a monster out there?" she asked.
Elise Forier Edie
#22. Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.
Timothy Snyder
#24. Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What's that got to do with the heart?
Lauren Beukes
#27. Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.
Charles Kennedy
#28. When you love someone, what they want is the best that you
can give them.
Marshall Sylver
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