Quote by William of Ockham

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

— William of Ockham

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

“No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary”

— Anonymous

“two things that should be avoided at all costs,”

— Lemony Snicket

“Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

“One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.”

— Ian Kerner

“ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. ”

— Mark Haddon

“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”

— David J. Griffiths

“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

— William Barrett