Quotes About Simplest Explanation

#1. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie

#2. Simplest explanation usually the right one

Kirsten Beyer

#3. I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

Claire Messud

#4. It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.

Samuel Beckett

#5. The simplest explanation is usually the right one

William Of Ockham

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

William Of Ockham

#7. The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Lincoln Child

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

Karen Marie Moning

#9. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.

Scott Adams

#10. 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

#11. The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Claire Messud

#12. In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.

Maxwell Maltz

#13. I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

Saoirse Ronan

#14. Nothing will inflame your enemies more than your silence. Give them nothing. Nothing to accuse you with. Nothing to condemn you. Let your actions speak for themselves. Never talk to an enemy, but listen always.

Elizabeth Hunter

#15. The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Thomas Sowell

#16. If we counted wrinkles as we do pages in a book, some of us are fast approaching "epic" status!

Jo Ann V. Glim

#17. When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Dan Brown

#18. What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

Alessandro Volta