“ Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is not a part of how these fluctuations work. Because of this, there see… Sten F. Odenwald
“ My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations. Peter Atkins
“ Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut! Raheel Farooq
“ I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Winston S. Churchill
“ [Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is wh… Daniel Tammet
“ Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,… Baruch Spinoza
“ It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good… Steven Pinker
“ ... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activ… Robert Farrar Capon
