The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The challenge is in identifying the cause. The effect identifies itself. KENDALL F. PERSON Bad results are the symptoms not the causes. JOHN LEACH Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w... LEONARDO DA VINCI It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events. PATRICIA MOYES Surprisingly, the gigantic capacity of storage with the human brain is not utilized for a fraction o... CHANDRABABU V.S. Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause? JOHNNY RICH Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. GREGORY BATESON You can improve your overall vibration just by improving your paradigm. For example, if you are hope... HINA HASHMI Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meanin... ALAN MOORE There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w... BARBARA AMIEL If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve. MAVIS GALLANT No incident, however seemingly trivial, is unimportant in the scheme of things. One event leads to a... JODI TAYLOR Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The univ... DEEPAK CHOPRA Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on h... NOAH LEVINE Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. DAVID BYRNE In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ... BLAISE PASCAL Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes... GREGORY BATESON A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life. ROY BENNETT A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect ha... J.D. STROUBE As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and ... JOHN STUART MILL The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. STUART SEATON You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and eff... HERMANN HESSE No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary d... NICK CLOONEY It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human abil... GALILEO GALILEI In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth cana... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eat... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an u... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, th... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people wi... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how tha... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shad... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the abili... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always m... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strate... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lie... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the w... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outc... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one w... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 y... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handf... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid suc... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does n... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to rel... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular r... ITZHAK BENTOV No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you ... DEEPAK CHOPRA It may promote brain plasticity by a direct effect on the brain. DR MIIA KIVIPELTO The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process i... H.L. MENCKEN No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without pe... SUZY KASSEM No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without pe... SUZY KASSEM The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in... DENNIS PRAGER A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to ... JO FURNISS When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort... GEORGE SAND Acts of Kindness: A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact o... ROY T. BENNETT We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, w... W. L. GEORGE No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa... SIGMUND FREUD To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pas... MICHAEL J. GELB A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and f... DAVID RICARDO Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or a... J.E.B. SPREDEMANN Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at ... ERICA DURANCE No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and... ALFRED DE VIGNY Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The e... PHILIPPE GRANDJEAN No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along th... BILLIE JEAN KING Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cau... EDWARD M. LERNER It is a complete waste of time and money. It is just going to mislead people into thinking they can ... LUKE LIROT Whatever hits the water causes a ripple effect on land. Earth often undergoes rapid temperature fluc... DARREN GRöCKE If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Tor... DAVID NOVAK I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the v... ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything... RAY COMFORT The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. LEON KASS Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely indiv... GERALD EDELMAN The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to... STANLEY CLARKE I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “ge... KEN LIU The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often ru... UNKNOWN TACKLE the ROOT CAUSE not the EFFECT. HARESH SIPPY The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or... ARTHUR KOESTLER The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in... KEVIN MCPHERSON ECKHOFF The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign... BARUJ BENACERRAF No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of on... WALTER WILLIAMS When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa... JAN BERRY Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, i... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, i... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w... CLAY AIKEN I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a hu... MALCOLM X Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on t... MAYA ANGELOU Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday t... ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
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