“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality. — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results, and one's role in them.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is… — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
“Life is perpetually testing us not only by administering these "thousand natural shocks" but by making us choose among them. Rarely is… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on… — Leon Louw Copy Share Image
Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would… — Joseph C. Rost Copy Share Image
“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not: as he fought to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is… — Sten F. Odenwald Copy Share Image
“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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