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==Quotes on Cause and Effect==

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[[Max Planck]]:<ref>{{cite book

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*''<blockquote><p>Hitherto '''the principle of causality''' was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.<ref>{{cite book

|title=Where is Science Going?

|author=Max Planck; James Murphy

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|place=New York

|year=1932

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|pages=~~217~~

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|pages=66,121,143

|url=http://www.questia.com/read/525348/where-is-science-going

|access date=2012-10-23

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*''Hitherto '''the principle of causality''' was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.''

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*''[[Religion]] belongs to the realm that is inviolable before '''the law of causation''' and therefore closed to [[science]].''

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*''The [[Quantum mechanics|quantum hypothesis]] will eventually find its exact expression in certain [[equation]]s which will be a more exact formulation of '''the law of causality'''.''

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