My favourite justification of the Occam razor is that even if two theories are equivalent in their explicit predictions, the simpler one is usually more likely to inspire correct generalisations. The reason may be that the more complicated the theory is, the more arbitrary constraints it puts on our thinking, and those constraints can prevent us from seeing the correct more general theory. For example, some versions of aether theory can be made eqivalent to special relativity, but the assumptions of absolute space and time make it nearly impossible to discover something equivalent to general relativity, starting from aether.
My favourite justification of the Occam razor is that even if two theories are equivalent in their explicit predictions, the simpler one is usually more likely to inspire correct generalisations. The reason may be that the more complicated the theory is, the more arbitrary constraints it puts on our thinking, and those constraints can prevent us from seeing the correct more general theory. For example, some versions of aether theory can be made eqivalent to special relativity, but the assumptions of absolute space and time make it nearly impossible to discover something equivalent to general relativity, starting from aether.