The fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Okham, wrote a sentence that urges us, in so many words, to

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William of Okham is famous for his principle of parsimony or Occam's Razor, which means that when there are multiple explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest one is usually the correct one. Therefore, the sentence he wrote urges us to strive for the simplest explanations possible.

The Fourteenth Century English Logician and Franciscan Friar, William of Okham