Concerned Quote by 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…

— Bob Hawke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of…

— Edmund Burke

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional…

— Adam Smith

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion.…

— David Eagleman

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do…

— Elliott Sober

It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the…

— David Eagleman

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison,…

— 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…

— Richard Dawkins

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which…

— Giulio Andreotti

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

— Seneca the Younger