Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”

— William of Ockham

“Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)”

— William of Ockham

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

— William of Ockham

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

— William of Ockham

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…

— William of Ockham

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

— William of Ockham

Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low…

— Frederick Lenz

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

— Martin Heidegger

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate…

— Jed S. Rakoff

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things…

— Martin Heidegger

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes…

— Richard Russo

“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they…

— John W. Loftus

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

— Aristotle

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

— Isaac Newton