While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war… — Giulio Andreotti Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
