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
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
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
“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
“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
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
Three things are necessary to make every man great , every nation great : 1. Conviction of the power of goodness. 2.… — Anonymous 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
“You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.” “Well, didn’t you? You were there.” “No,… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen 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
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease. — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda 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
But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it;… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
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
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
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