"Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle……" — Randall Munroe
"Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’"
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Randall Munroe
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34 Quotes by Randall Munroe
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field,…
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But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a…
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Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t…
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Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
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A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
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The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the…
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The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
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I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing…
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When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.
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Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
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News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on…
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More Causation Quotes
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one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
— Zeno of Citium
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic…
— Nathan Rosenberg
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If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the…
— Thomas Huxley
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As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed…
— Stephen Batchelor
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God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed…
— S. T. Joshi
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as…
— Bertrand Russell
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
— Jared Diamond
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
— Wumen Huikai
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Bullies are always cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
— Swami Vivekananda
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