Causes Quote by Franz Boas

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the…

— Thomas Nagel

“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“life is a natural sequence of events”

— Igarin

“But most of us, for most of our lives, do not try to determine the causes of things. Rather, most of the time we…

— Robert Ornstein

Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for…

— Christian de Duve

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

— Corliss Lamont

“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is the analysis…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay”

— William Faulkner