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Causes Quotes - Page 32

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.184, Macmillan

'Cause I do so much homework I'm good to go on the first take; I don't want to rehearse. I like the element of what's unpredictable of that first take and nobody knows what's going to happen, and I'm a big fan of that.

"Michael Fassbender on the Long Takes of ‘Light Between Oceans’ and the Scariness of ‘Alien: Covenant’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 29, 2016.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.86, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.87, Cambridge University Press