Causes Quote by Albertus Magnus

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

First causes are outside the realm of science.

— Claude Bernard

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is…

— Timothy Keller

I don't believe in natural science.

— Kurt Gödel

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.”

— Anonymous

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

— David Hume

It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute…

— Galileo Galilei

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can…

— John Herschel

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry…

— John Burroughs

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— C.P. Snow