“ Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady… Max Born
“ Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations… Aldous Huxley
“ Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying some… Kenan Malik
“ We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain problems and emphas… Daniel Waterman
“ Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause… Gregory Bateson
“ We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality. Jeff Vandermeer
“ Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan. Ted Chiang
“ Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most o… Peter J. Carroll
“ Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world… Immanuel Kant
“ Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. Arif Ahmed
“ The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects Johnny Rich
“ But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. Johnny Rich
“ To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. Sharon Salzberg
“ There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after t… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
