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It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions.
Werner Heisenberg
Strict
Finally
Statements
We Cannot
Statistical
Objective
Rely
Observations
True
Concerning
Quantum
Causality
Arrive
Repeating
Times
Cannot
Experiments
Derive
Theory
Many
Series
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Corruption
Power
Way
One-Way
Between
Empowering
Does
Causality
Go
Interesting
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Jorge Luis Borges
Problem
Causality
Central
Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.
Timothy Morton
Trouble
Consider
Magical
Only
Causality
Existence
Children
Anyone
Who
Need
Imagining
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.
Timothy Morton
Consider
Arguing
Advantage
Alongside
Call
Aesthetic
Causality
Us
Things
Consciousness
The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.
Greg Grandin
Time
Needs
Game
Increasingly
Philosophers
Complex
One Thing
Some
Physicists
Since
Concept
Another
Causality
Exist
Question
Questions
Effort
Infinite
Establish
Might
Regression
Mug
Reasoning
Thing
In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.
Moshe Vardi
Economics
Easier
Data
Causality
Than
Agree
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
Luc Ferrari
Life
Ideology
Spring
Own
Clarinet
Piano
Development
Longer
Instruments
Without
Sound
Causality
Sounds
Tape
Form
Use