Top 236 Occam's Razor Quotes & Sayings

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.

March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

I was Razor Ramon, and I started the nWo.

Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

When I was a little kid, I'd always go to WWE shows and I was a huge fan of Razor Ramon.

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.

Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.

So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination.

We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light.

Anything can happen with a razor.

If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.

It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.