Causality and Chance in Modern Physics Quotes

“At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions.”
― David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“The most essential aspects of this philosophy seem to the author, however, to be its assumption that the great diversity of things that appear in all of our experience, every day as well as scientific, can all be reduced completely and perfectly to nothing more than consequences of the operation of an absolute and final set of purely quantitative laws determining the behaviour of a few kinds of basic entities or variables.”
― David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“Nature is neither random nor deterministic, but history has shown that there is a continuous alternation between these two views.”
― David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“The notion of a thing is thus seen to be an abstraction, in which it is conceptually separated from its infinite background and substructure. Actually, however, a thing does not and could not exist apart from the context from which it has thus been conceptually abstracted. And therefore the world is not made by putting together the various “things” in it, but, rather, these things are only approximately what we find on analysis in certain contexts and under suitable conditions. To”
― David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“It is a most important characteristic of the mechanistic philosophy, however, that it permits one to make a limitless number of adjustments in his detailed point of view, without giving up what is essential to the mechanistic position.”
― David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics