Conditions Quote by Ruth Benedict

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

— Paul Goodman

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

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human…

— Simon Winchester

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't.…

— Anonymous

“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”

— John Brockman

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in…

— James D. Watson

“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand, than the…

— Betty Friedan

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science…

— Werner Heisenberg

Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything,…

— Willis Harman

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task…

— Niels Bohr

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by…

— Humphry Davy