The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Because GMOs aren't labeled, it's very hard to prove causality in terms of health effects. It's even more difficult because the seeds… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative… — Francis George Copy Share Image
It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. You can assume he… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Act and opportunities will manifest. There is no such thing as luck. There is only causality. Are you strong enough to cause… — Abhijit Naskar 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
This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the… — Peter Gleick Copy Share Image
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The thing you know as Karma, does not really exist the way you think. It can only exist through the law of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“The most common accident causality models assume that accidents are caused by component failure and that making system components highly reliable or… — Nancy G. Leveson Copy Share Image
“If you are reading this Libellus, you are a Dreamer, whether you have recognized this or not. Being a Dreamer carries responsibility,… — Michael Hibbard Copy Share Image
“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built… — T.H. Janabi Copy Share Image
“I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events,… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
“Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in… — David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D Copy Share Image
We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image