“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. — Max Planck 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
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great , every nation great : 1. Conviction of the power of goodness. 2.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the… — Stephen Batchelor 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
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
“Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with… — Nate Silver 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
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
That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals. Although it may be needless to state here the law of causation… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright 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
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert 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
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
