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, “On Phenomenology”, The Essential Peirce, vol 2 (via philosophybits)
the Pyramid Temple Complex of King SahuRa (ca. 2458–2446 BCE) at Bousiri, next to modern Cairo (pr-Wsjr, “the House of Osiris”, that is the name of more than ten sacred cities of Egypt)