Causal Analysis Quotes

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

There's too little sense in the State Department of why things happened.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

Everything has a cause.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

You've got to accept where mistakes will happen, and it's about not making the next one.

If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.