Causation Quotes

38 quotes by 25 authors

Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and so… — Paul W. Ewald
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought,… — Swami Vivekananda
Correlation doesnâ€™t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing â€˜look over there.â€™ — Randall Munroe
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking… — Swami Vivekananda
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you… — Swami Vivekananda
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease. — Wilfred Trotter
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream… — Ernest Howard Crosby
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we… — Trofim Lysenko
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. — Max Planck
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in… — Pope Clement I
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world… — Adrian Desmond
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain… — George F. R. Ellis
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all… — Charles Olson
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found… — Robert Frost
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a… — Paul Bloom

Who Wrote These Causation Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 38 Causation Quotes as follows: