“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
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen 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
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
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
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
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“your choices themselves are the consequences of a massive string of causation, set in motion countless billions of years before you were… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there… — David S. Kidder 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
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville 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
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she… — William James 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
“While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is… — Dew Platt 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
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James 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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
