Cannot Quote by Henri Poincare

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to…

— Henri Poincare

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to…

— Alexander Fleming

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

— Elmar Hussein

“Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at…

— Albert Vigoleis Thelen

“Nothing in this world is ‘by chance’. There are “covered causes” (hidden) within. ‘By chance’ is also the result of an effort.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

— Ovid

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

“Consequences must outweigh probabilities”

— Blaise Pascal

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that…

— Adam Clarke

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

— Ralph Marston

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

— Jane Austen

“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