Already we see signs of the Aristotelian picture in which you come to know the cause by knowing the visible effect and to know the effect by knowing the cause.
Last, knowing the cause of disease is helpful.
The Marquise of O- begins with a newspaper advertisement by the eponymous noblewoman, asking that the father of the child she conceived "without knowing the cause" present himself.
A roommate in the hostel where she was living joked that she was a restless night owl, not knowing the cause.
When Mukherjee talks about knowing the "causes" of cancer, he means genes and cellular mechanisms gone wrong, not the environmental agents that might induce changes in those genes.
"It was hard for us, but I couldn't complain knowing the cause, and how there are people suffering so much worse.
Because of an editing error, an obituary on Wednesday about Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of "How We Die," in referring to his father, Meyer Nudelman, misidentified the person whose death occurred without Mr. Nudelman's knowing the cause.
House Democrats have announced plans for a broader probe into the fossil fuel industry to determine whether other companies behaved in the same manner as Exxon, funding a denial misinformation campaign after knowing the causes and risks associated with climate change.
It is because man can grow in perfection by knowing the causes; indeed, knowing the causes is an act of the essence of man.
The irony in disconnecting the cure from the cause is that knowing the causes will facilitate the cure.
