Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

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

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

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.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

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

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

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

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

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

With a heavy heart, I pulled out my own pocket knife, and carved three little words beneath Archer’s. A plea and a wish, in a form I could never take back. Return to me.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

And I know what confidence medals can bring.

I am a very committed European.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

Do you want me to answer that?

Pleasant words are the food of love.