Unknown Causes Quotes

I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't understand just yet.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

We don’t know what those other cycles where caused by...Could be dinosaur flatulence...Who knows?

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.