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
“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
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
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
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
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to… — Dean Spade 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
This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your… — Swami Vivekananda 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
I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation. — Tim Ferriss 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
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
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
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image