Quotes About Causality

The major thrust of the criticism leveled against Piaget's theory of infant development comes from the neonativist enterprise that argues that core knowledge and the abilities to represent and reason about physical reality (e.g., objects, causality, space) are innate (see Bremner, 2001; Cohen & Cashon, 2006, for reviews).

Is it possible that a contingent genesis can lead to necessary knowledge?

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.

But it does imply that the search for scapegoats—a particularly alluring pastime in individualistic cultures such as ours in the United States—is a blind alley.

Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

Victimology's all about emotions and finding someone—anyone—else to blame for your situation. And of course, that 'someone' has to've done it out of pure malevolence! After all, you're the victim, the pure and innocent injured party who never did a single thing to deserve what's happened to you.

La complexité humaine ne se réduit à aucun principe de causalité.

Nunca —y eso Significa Nunca— Culpes a otras Personas o Sucesos Externos.

Van één ding zijn we zeker : dat we mensen zijn, stof onder de sterren. En dat alle menselijke geluk en alle menselijke leed door mensen veroorzaakt wordt.

El universo es infinitamente rico y complejo y suceden en él todo tipo de cosas maravillosas. Pero no deberíamos confundir los resultados con las causas e imaginar que el propósito del universo es hacer seres humanos.

For two events separated in time, a geodesic is the natural path things would take in spacetime to connect one event to the other.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The Sovereign God causes all things, and he is good and righteous in all that he does. Blessed be the name of the Lord." No objection can touch this.

We reap what we sow We are the makers of our own fate None else has the blame None has the praise

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Imagine not being able to distinguish the real cause from that without which the cause would not be able to act as a cause.