Causality Quotes
33 quotes by 26 authors
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
— Albert Einstein
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…
— Albert Einstein
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained…
— Georges Canguilhem
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence…
— Branch Rickey
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only…
— Bertrand Russell
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We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space,…
— Stanislav Grof
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Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I…
— Mike W. Barr
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring…
— Luc Ferrari
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Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.
— Frederick Lenz
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Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You…
— Frederick Lenz
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Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it…
— Max Planck
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
— Max Planck
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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
— Karl Popper
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Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
— Stanislav Grof
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
— Susan Sontag
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Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always…
— Dag Hammarskjold
Who Wrote These Causality Quotes
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