Quote#Science & Reason
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than…
Quote byCharles Sanders Peirce · 1839–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903), Lecture II : The Universal Categories, §3. Laws: Nominalism, CP 5.60.
English (original)
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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