Causes Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

“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

“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place. The…

— Siméon Denis Poisson

“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the reason we…

— George Boole

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

“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

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

— Aristotle

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Dada Bhagwan