Quote by S.F. Chapman Download Open image ““Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”” — S.F. Chapman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Everything, every fact, bar none, has a cause, and we must understand that everything necessarily occurs.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“in a highly organized system, the causation is more pronounced and intentional. The elements seem to have been more precisely selected. Things escalate decisively;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“our brains are happy to fill in the blanks with causal relationships that don't really exist.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow.” — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.” — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
