Causality Quote by Quentin Smith

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

— Louis Pasteur

“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

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

“God is thus entrenched in the Flow systems as a causal belief, but an unordered one. Within Flow, this is implemented as unordered in…

— Dew Platt

“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically excludes its…

— Donald L. Ewert

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the…

— Hugh Ross

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

— Thomas Huxley

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear…

— David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past…

— David Hume

“The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.”

— Millard Kaufman

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that…

— Max Planck

“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