Causes Quote by Henri Poincare

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the…

— Henri Poincare

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

— Voltaire

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

— Dada Bhagwan

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner

“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

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

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“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

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace