Adequate Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

“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

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

— Isaac Newton

“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 spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency…

— George Henry Lewes

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

“The causality-bound aspect of Nature is not the whole truth. Ultimate Reality is invading our consciousness from other directions as well, and the purely…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Albertus Magnus