Cause and effect Quote by Jacob Bigelow

“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps…

— Alan Lightman

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

— Horace Mann

“The chain from cause to effects may be quite long and take surprising forms, but a cause there must be. It is unsatisfactory to…

— Julian Barbour

[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“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

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Corliss Lamont

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go…

— Umberto Eco

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

— Isaac Newton

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances…

— John Stuart Mill

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley