I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate? — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I do absolutely believe that the climate is changing. I'm not prepared to determine causation. — Kirstjen Nielsen Copy Share Image
“on reasoning about patterns of causation. They are products of System 1. In 1944, at about the same” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’ — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to… — Nathan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she… — William James Copy Share Image
“While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker 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
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Whenever there’s a problem B, we assume that event A caused it. The financial crisis is caused by bankers; the loss of… — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas… — William James Copy Share Image
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them;… — Caspar Friedrich Wolff Copy Share Image
“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there… — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
“your choices themselves are the consequences of a massive string of causation, set in motion countless billions of years before you were… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“in a highly organized system, the causation is more pronounced and intentional. The elements seem to have been more precisely selected. Things… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
