Correlation Quote by Geoffrey Nunberg

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't.…

— Anonymous

“Causality = Correlation + Assumptions”

— J.N. Berkemeijer

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

— Tim Ferriss

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

— Paul Goodman

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything,…

— Willis Harman

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find…

— Ruth Benedict

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that…

— Max Planck

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

— Charlie Munger

“Correlation is nice. But if you’ve found a leading indicator that causes a change later on, that’s a superpower, because it means you can…

— Alistair Croll

“even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— S.F. Chapman