William of Occam Quotes

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

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• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • See

• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Women
  • Family

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Soul
  • Dream

• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Trees
  • Fruit
  • Milk

• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Power
  • Now
  • Defeat

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Obsessed

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• It's like a pylon.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Women
  • Complacency

• I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Song

• I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

  

  James Gray
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Live
  • Space
  • Perspective

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Violence
  • Wrestling
  • Ballet

• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  

  Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • True
  • Spring

• What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Dad

• That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Moon
  • Sick

• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  

  George C. Homans
  • People
  • Long
  • Justice

• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

  

  William of Occam
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