Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“in a highly organized system, the causation is more pronounced and intentional. The elements seem to have been more precisely selected. Things escalate decisively;…

— George Saunders

“Whenever there’s a problem B, we assume that event A caused it. The financial crisis is caused by bankers; the loss of jobs is…

— Jurgen Appelo

“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there are causes…

— David S. Kidder

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may…

— Jared Diamond

“System 1 has a What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI) bias, which only considers factors that are readily apparent at the time.”

— Rich Jolly

“System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 maintains.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

— Tim Ferriss

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the…

— Leo Tolstoy