Doe Quote by Thomas Aquinas

“The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, ‘this…

— Dada Bhagwan

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

— Isaac Newton

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

— Thomas Aquinas

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

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

“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

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

— William of Ockham

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham