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I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

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William of Ockham

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

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

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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

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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 by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

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My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

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With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

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