Causes Quote by Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

— Walter A. Shewhart

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

— Arthur Koestler

“The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of focusing on…

— Daniel Kahneman

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

“‎"..one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur, but…

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

“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

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

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to…

— Henri Poincare

“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps…

— Alan Lightman