Causes Quote by Joseph Addison

“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

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned…

— Andy Hargreaves

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

— Isabelle Holland

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may…

— Jared Diamond

Everything happens for a reason, however it is sometimes hard to find the reason(s) behind everything that happens.

— Nishan Panwar

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents,…

— Joseph Addison

“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because…

— David Eagleman

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it,…

— Helen Van Slyke

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life…

— Carl von Clausewitz