Quotes Tagged With :causation

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield,....

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But....

... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and....

You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you?....

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is....

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers,....

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and....

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation),....