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

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

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

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

— William of Ockham

So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in…

— Richard Dawkins

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…

— Francis Crick

People don't want to know the truth.

— Katherine Jackson

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…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor,…

— David G. McAfee

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

— Isaac Newton

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe…

— Thomas Aquinas

“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

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

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

— Aristotle

Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement…

— Lawrence M. Krauss