Causes Quote by Isaac Newton

“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that consciousness is…

— Lewis N. Roe

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

— Isaac Newton

“What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms,…

— Werner Heisenberg

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

— Baruch Spinoza

I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature…

— Robert Boyle

“Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.”

— Ilchi Lee

“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

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler