"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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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Cause, Justification, Reason

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Cause, Sorrow

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Opponents

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Causes, Effect

"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Cause, Causes, Class, Force, Physics

"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

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

Cause, Conflict

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Cause, Disaster, Effect, Weakness

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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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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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

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

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

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

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

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

"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."

"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."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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

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

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

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