Citas de parsimonia

• La mera parsimonia no es economía. El gasto, y el gran gasto, puede ser una parte esencial de la verdadera economía.

  Edmund Burke

  Compromiso, Esenciales, Mayo

  Edmund Burke (2016). "Obras completas Delphi de Edmund Burke (Ilustradas)", p.3780, Delphi Classics.

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• There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

  Livy

  Poverty, Ashamed

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

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• Una parsimonia de palabras pródiga en sentido.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Brevity, Prodigals

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Conde de Beaconsfield) (1860). "Curiosidades de la literatura", p.360

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• Si el tiempo es dinero, parece moral ahorrar tiempo, sobre todo el propio, y tal parsimonia se excusa por consideración a los demás. Uno es directo.

  Theodor Adorno

  Moral, Consideration, Time Is Money

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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  Haga que todo sea lo más sencillo posible, pero no más simple.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirador, divertido, ingenioso

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• Con parsimonia basta un poco; sin ella no basta nada; pero la frugalidad hace rico al pobre.

  Séneca el Joven

  Dinero, Hombres, Pequeños

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• El gasto, y el gran gasto, puede ser una parte esencial en la verdadera economía. Si la parsimonia fuera considerada como una de las clases de esa virtud, hay, sin embargo, otra y más elevada economía. La economía es una virtud distintiva, y no consiste en ahorrar, sino en seleccionar.

  Edmund Burke

  Essentials, Saving, May

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• I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Kings, Beggar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

  Philip K. Dick

  Simple, Principles, Facts

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La economía es una virtud distributiva, y no consiste en ahorrar sino en seleccionar. La parsimonia no requiere providencia, ni sagacidad, ni poder de combinación, ni comparación, ni juicio.

  Edmund Burke

  Saving, Judgment, Virtue

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientific problem is cornered.

  David Eagleman

  Ideas, Views, Interesting

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.178, Canongate Books

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• The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Artist, Principles, Purpose

  Rudolf Arnheim (1954). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• Mientras la sociedad no pueda proporcionar empleo a sus miembros, hay que abandonar el nexo producción/trabajo/ingresos como justificación de nuestra actual parsimonia con los desempleados. Un supuesto no puede servir para justificar que se convierta en ciudadanos de segunda clase a quienes tienen la desgracia de constituir la prueba viviente de la inexactitud de ese supuesto.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Class, Income

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• En realidad se reduce a parsimonia, economía de explicación. Es posible que el motor de tu coche esté impulsado por energía psicoquinética, pero si parece un motor de gasolina, huele como un motor de gasolina y funciona exactamente igual que un motor de gasolina, la hipótesis de trabajo más sensata es que se trata de un motor de gasolina.

  Richard Dawkins

  Crazy, Smell, Mad

  "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.

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• Basta la parsimonia para que el dueño de las minas de oro sea tan pobre como el que no tiene nada; pues un hombre puede llegar a tener un bocado de pan tanto con parsimonia como con profusión.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Men, May, Golden

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.96

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• My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Madre, hijos, padre

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• Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

  Adam Smith

  Hombres, Manos, Números

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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• La economía es una virtud distributiva, y no consiste en ahorrar sino en seleccionar.

  Edmund Burke

  Saving, Virtue, Economy

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.

  David Eagleman

  Long, Earth, Sun

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Greed, Rising

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do almost all the organisms that are alive today on our planet use the same genetic code? If they share a common ancestor, the code could have evolved just once and then been inherited from the most recent common ancestor that present organisms share. On the other hand, if organisms in different species share no common ancestors, the code must have evolved repeatedly.

  Elliott Sober

  Hands, Live For Today, Example

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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.

  David Eagleman

  Past, Razors, Lines

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Men

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