Occam's razor

“Surely there is nothing strange about that. The simplest explanation is often the best, Master Gogolev. It is the lesson of Occam’s Razor. I would expect a professional educator to know that.”

“Yes, as Occam’s Razor reminds us.”

While Endres acknowledges the idea as logically possible, he notes that it runs counter to Occam's razor, the principle that favors simpler explanations.

Asked what he would have done different four years ago, Baffert offered an Occam’s razor kind of answer.

“To carve away the rotten bits of my festering mind with Occam’s razor of the better angels of my greater nature. And while I am 100 percent positive that last thought did not make any f------ sense, it certainly felt true when I thought it, and that matters.”