William of Occam Quotes
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Occam
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
Kate Smith
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
Natalia Kills
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
Adam Lambert
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
Edie Sedgwick
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
Fedor Emelianenko
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We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.
Hans Vestberg
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'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.
Katee Sackhoff
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I never make predictions and I never will.
Paul Gascoigne
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.
Thomas Kuhn
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Occam
