Fill in the blank Quote by David DiSalvo

“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.”

— Steve Martin

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

— S.F. Chapman

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it”

— Bashir F. Biodun

“Accidental, unintended connections are the best concocted by the universe long before realizing the moon's heartbeat was waiting for you.”

— Melody Lee

“The brain’s total number of connections rivals the stars and galaxies of the universe.”

— Paul W. Brand

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

— Robert Sapolsky

“Focusing strictly on the logical cause-effect relationships was what allowed us to see what was really going on.”

— Ray Dalio

“It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.”

— Rae Carson

“Because we’re suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.”

— Don DeLillo

“When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence of physics.”

— Christopher McDougall

“That’s the human brain,” Attavio VI said. “It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where…

— John Scalzi