Top 38 Ockham's 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
#5. Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.
Matt Damon
#7. Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
William Of Ockham
#8. 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
#9. Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
Cathleen Falsani
#11. With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William Of Ockham
#12. I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.
Lin Shaye
#14. Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
William Of Ockham
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
John Kasich
#19. The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
William Booth
#20. 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
#23. It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.
Cynthia Lewis
#25. All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.
William Of Ockham
#26. The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William Of Ockham
#27. Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
William Of Ockham
#28. In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
Stephen Covey
#29. Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.
Paul Schrader
#30. When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William Of Ockham
#32. I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique.
Robert Winston
#33. Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)
William Of Ockham
#34. Diego thought about the night before, about the first breaths of morning chasing them from that old abandoned building, his arms twisted around her waist, finger's trembling against the soft skin of her hip as they stood within the ruins of a war Liliana would never understand.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#35. Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
William Of Ockham
#37. I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.
Sara Bareilles
#38. When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.
Sada Thompson
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