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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Causality Causation Cause And Effect Chance Darwinism Inspirational Kalam Cosmological Argument Luck Naturalism Necessity Serendipity

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, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Adoration Astonishment Authority Causation Cause Foolish Fools Gods Heresy Heretical Ignorance Impious Interpret Knowledge Miracles Mob Nature Philosopher Piety Preservation Stare The Gods Thinking Truth Understanding Wonder

... 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 activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.

~ Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Being Causation Divine God Knowledge Thinghood

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

Raheel Farooq Causation Future Past Present Slut Time

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 seem not to be any correlations built into these kinds of fluctuations because 'law' as we understand the term requires some kind of cause-and-effect structure to pre-exist. Quantum fluctuations can precede physical law, but it seems that the converse is not true. So in the big bang, the establishment of 'law' came after the event itself, but of course even the concept of time and causality may not have been quite the same back then as they are now.

~ Sten F. Odenwald

Sten F. Odenwald A Causal Big Bang Causation Cause And Effect Cosmology Fluctuations Laws Physics Quantum Quantum Fluctuations Quantum Mechanics Science Singularity Universe

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

Peter Atkins Atheism Atheist Causation Universe

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, ordinary, forward causation).

~ Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker Causation Evolution Natural Selection Teleology

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation, it cannot be assumed at the start.

~ S.t. Joshi

S.t. Joshi Argument Burden Of Proof Causation Existence Logic

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

~ Winston S. Churchill

Winston S. Churchill Causation Fact Relief Results Sea Theory

You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You were there.”“No, I didn’t—no… well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.”“Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.”“But… but—” Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. “It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That’s silly.”“Well, didn’t you?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Causation Spacetime Time Travel
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