Argument Quote by David Eagleman

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

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of this world.…

— Otto Von Guericke

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

“Occam's razor." "Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most likely.”

— Lisa Kleypas

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the…

— Nassau William Senior

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our…

— John Gribbin

“If the evidence is strong enough, you are convinced that there is no other reasonable answer. Your resulting sense of certainty feels like the…

— Robert Burton M.D

“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue and will…

— Larry Fort

“In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way…

— Edward De Bono