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

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

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Cause, Justification, Reason

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

William James, American Philosopher

Cause, Choice, Difference, Man

"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

Cause, Democracy, Example, Military

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Cause, Effect, Change, History

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Causes, Effect

"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Cause, Majority

"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."

Carly Simon, American Musician

Cause, Desire, Pain

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Cause, Now, Trouble

"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Cause, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

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"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."

"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."

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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."