"Law of parsimony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... operation of higher causes where the operation of lower ones is sufficient to explain the observed phenomena, and all our science and all our philosophy are scattered to the winds. For the law of logic which Sir William Hamilton called the law of parsimony—or the law which forbids us to assume the operation of higher causes when lower ones are found sufficient to explain the observed effects—this law constitutes the only barrier between science and superstition. ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes |
