In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality. — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everything has reasons, even if they’re not good ones. And the reasons have reasons.” — Johnny Rich Copy Share Image
“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Be the action and bring the change. Leave the rest to the law of causality. Be bold enough to cause something to… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that… — Terence McKenna 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
“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
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
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof… — Thomas Hobbes 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
“There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image