Quotes by Causality Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished Albert Bandura causalityoutcomesself Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities. Albert Bandura jointscausalitydoe I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. Albert Einstein causalityspiritualityaction I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. Albert Einstein causalitylifebelieve To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. Banesh Hoffmann causalitysecretworld Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation. Blaise Pascal causalitydignityprayer I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch. Edward Zigler causalityyouththinking Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there. Eliezer Yudkowsky causalityfakeideas The poetic image exists apart from causality. Gaston Bachelard causalitypoetic But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them. Friedrich Nietzsche causalitydeedsdoe Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche causalityspacetime Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma. Frederick Lenz causalitykarmathree Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not. Frederick Lenz causalitykarmawater The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges causalityproblemwriting And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality. Joyce Carol Oates causalityrushingart As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals. Martin Buber tempestcausalitylong The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively. Niels Bohr causalityunionsspace The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad. Otto Weininger causalitydoemen This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause. Peter Gleick causalitycausesmatter It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality? Plato causalitybeautifulbeauty12»
