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I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate? -- Demetri Martin
It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things. -- Ervin Seale
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. -- Amartya Sen
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. -- Trofim Lysenko
Correlation is not causation. -- Kenneth L. Woodward
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle... -- Charlie Munger
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. --
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. -- Herman Melville
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. -- Zeno of Citium
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence. -- Anselm of Canterbury
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. -- Ernest Howard Crosby
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics. -- George F. R. Ellis
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions. -- Dean Spade
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'. -- Adrian Desmond
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.] -- Bruce Ames
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. -- Thomas Sowell
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. -- Zeno of Citium
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. -- Ernest Howard Crosby
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity. -- Paul Bloom
All law has its essence in causation. -- Swami Vivekananda
All is bound by the law of causation -- Swami Vivekananda
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya. -- Swami Vivekananda
The law of Karma is the law of causation. -- Swami Vivekananda
The enlightened man is one with the law of causation. -- Wumen Huikai
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. -- Swami Vivekananda
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease. -- Wilfred Trotter
Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation. -- John E. Sarno
An inference of perspective, a glimpse of regularity, causation of habit, and the only recurrence: my faith in you. -- Camilo Garzon
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. -- Swami Vivekananda
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If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. -- Thomas Huxley
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
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation. -- Swami Vivekananda
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response -- Nathan Rosenberg
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. -- Thomas Sowell
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation. -- Martin Lindstrom
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three. -- Swami Vivekananda
The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them. -- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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