Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle. — Charlie Munger 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
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
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen 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
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’ — Randall Munroe 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
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
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the… — Anonymous 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
“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
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville 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
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest… — Pope Clement I 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
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker 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
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell 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 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
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
“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 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
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
“ 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
