Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"In the mind there is no absolute or free will."
Determinism quotes
Determinism
10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Circumstances make man, not man circumstances."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"The way out is the way through."
Claude Bernard
Physiologist
"Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness."
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