Quotes About Causality

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

that's really all a story is: a series of things that happen in sequence, in which we can discern a pattern of causality.

Until you work backwards from the moments, hours or days before the actual mistake occured, you probably won't see all of the contributing factors and can't learn all of the possible lessons. The more complex the mistake, the further back you'll need to go and the more careful and open-minded you need to be in your own investigation.

We might be able to guarantee that events along a closed timelike curve are consistent with the microscopic laws of physics, but in general they cannot be compatible with an uninterrupted increase of entropy along the curve.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.

The past, and its relationship to the present, has always been vital to Miller. As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.

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alteration (i.e. change that takes place according to causal law) always concerns a particular part of space and, simultaneously and together with this, a particular part of time. Consequently, causality unites space with time.

we have found that the whole essence of matter lies in action, a i.e. in causality: as a result, matter must also unify space and time, that is, matter must possess the properties of both time and space simultaneously

Viceversa ogni causalità, perciò ogni materia, e quindi l'intera realtà esiste soltanto per l'intelletto, mediante l'intelletto, nell'intelletto. La prima, più semplice, sempre presente manifestazione dell'intelletto è l'intuizione del mondo reale: questa non è altro se non conoscenza della causa dall'effetto: perciò ogni intuizione è intellettuale

The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.

The last chapter discussed why we see time go forward: why disorder increases and why we remember the past but not the future.

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

even if there were events before the big bang, one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward, because predictability would break down at the big bang.

events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.

The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.

A butterfly flapping its wings in Australia can cause rain in Central Park, New York.

Things are as they are because we are

As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang.

En consecuencia, si solo sabemos lo que ha sucedido desde el big bang, no podemos determinar lo que sucedió antes. Para nosotros, los sucesos anteriores al big bang no pueden tener consecuencias, de modo que no deberían formar parte de un modelo científico del universo. Por eso deberíamos eliminarlos del modelo y decir que el tiempo tuvo un comienzo en el big bang.

Nothing's random. Even if it looks that way, it's just because you don't know the causes.