Parsimony Quotes
- If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is… — Theodor Adorno
- Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. — Edmund Burke
- It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
- Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human… — Charles Lapworth
- While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.… — Bob Hawke
- There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. — Livy
- With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca the Younger
- The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. — Rudolf Arnheim
- The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for… — Philip K. Dick