It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union… — Niels Bohr 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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