Best 28 quotes of William on MyQuotes

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

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 likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

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

My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

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

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

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

Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis woke me with an urgent voice. “Bill, Bill,” she said, “when I woke up I saw this huge boulder beside me, but it wasn’t there last night. Look! Look!” she said and pointed next to her. It was the huge buffalo bull! He had come back during the night and lay down beside us to sleep. I was awestruck. I felt so honored, so grateful, so loved. I loved that buffalo with all my heart and soul. I felt like he knew it, and that was why he had come back to sleep with us. But maybe there’s a different reason. Judith Niles, a wise spiritual friend of mine recently told me that the spontaneous melody is “the voice of the soul.” The minute she said it I knew she was right. Now I feel sure that the creatures responded to “the voice of the soul” amplified through my body. When we human beings finally get it together the natural world is going to respond to us in more wonderful ways than we can ever begin to imagine.

God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.