Entity Quote by William of Ockham Download Open image “Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.” — William of Ockham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entity Inspirational Science Should
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. — Hiroyuki Nishimura Copy Share Image
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
“Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)” — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything? — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
