Causality Quote by Werner Heisenberg

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows…

— Edward Teller

“The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace's dream of a theory of science, a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic.…

— Stephen Hawking

The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the…

— Jacob Bronowski

The future is inherently uncertain.

— Manmohan Singh

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

It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive…

— Werner Heisenberg

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy,…

— Bertrand Russell

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is…

— Anonymous

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

— Wendell Berry

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

— Mohsin Hamid

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton