Quotes about Causality

Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth?

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.