Quotes about Causality

What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.

Leibniz's reasoning: 1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. 3. The universe exists.

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.