Cause and effect Quote by David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past…

— David Hume

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its…

— Ronald Fisher

“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

When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved…

— David Brin

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna

“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.”

— Elmar Hussein

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience;…

— David Hume

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to be. It…

— Dew Platt

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another,…

— Marcus Aurelius

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

— Geoffrey Nunberg