Ockham Quotes

#1. Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.

Israel Shamir

#2. But a question needs to be asked, a basic logical scientific question. It is simply this, has anyone applied Ockham's Razor to the question yet?

Leviak B. Kelly

#3. There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#4. Ockham's disposable razors

James K. Morrow

#5. 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

William Of Ockham

#6. Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

William Of Ockham

#7. Someday Perky. Someday... When you're ready, you'll realize just how dirty my mouth can be all over you. And you'll love it.

Penelope Ward

#8. Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

William Of Ockham

#9. Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Susan Estrich

#10. With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

William Of Ockham

#11. The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#12. We must always suggest a way out, however simplistic it may be. It is a more positive attitude towards life.

Chetan Bhagat

#13. Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

William Of Ockham

#14. First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

William Of Ockham

#15. Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Of Ockham

#16. My God is
the green tide in the spring leaves
the redness of cherries high in the air
the excitement of shooting stars
the song of birds in summer branches
the sunrise on a winter's morning
the name of everything we don't understand ...

William Of Ockham

#17. For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

William Of Ockham

#18. God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

William Of Ockham

#19. Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

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#20. Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

Timothy McVeigh

#21. The simplest explanation is usually the right one

William Of Ockham

#22. Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Bruce Coville

#23. What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.

Matthew Henry

#24. Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Of Ockham

#25. Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

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#26. Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don't love him. Please don't love him.

Jojo Moyes

#27. Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)

William Of Ockham

#28. Keep things simple.

William Of Ockham

#29. When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

William Of Ockham

#30. Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

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#31. The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

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#32. All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.

William Of Ockham

#33. Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

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