Quotes About Occam's Razor

#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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. 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

#8. Occam's razor," she said. "Going up makes more sense.

Peter Clines

#9. Shave you mind with occam's razor everyday

Paul Grimsley

#10. 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

#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

#12. Occam's Razor shaves you closer.

Hilary Mantel

#13. Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

John Scalzi

#14. There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Ehud Olmert

#15. Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Ben Marcus

#16. With Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea.

John Crowley

#17. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Audrey Niffenegger

#18. Love when you want to spend every waking moment with that person because they make you feel whole. Alive.

Shanora Williams

#19. We've all got to worry some-but we can't let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

Jim Rohn

#20. Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

Richard Carmona

#21. I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

Jimmy Carl Black

#22. We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.

T.D. Jakes

#23. You might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick him for a long time, and it just never had seemed safe till now

Jim Thompson

#24. Simple is never that simple.

Philip Roth

#25. In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must

Elizabeth Liebert

#26. There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

Hasso Plattner

#27. Keep all your balls in the air.

Vivian Nixon

#28. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[*] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

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