Uncertainty often rules

… Science has become dangerously addicted to cause-and-effect thinking. Most non-medical scientists are unfamiliar with neurophysiology and rarely wonder how we, who are limited by our natures to process consciously no more than 50 binary digits of information (about 6 bytes) at any moment, can possibly think about anything serious. … Most of us, scientists included, were taught that effect follows cause. This was the Cartesian way of thinking, named after the great French savant, René Descartes. … But his unshakeable determinism, so convenient for teaching, became questionable when modern science introduced the quantum theory, where uncertainty often rules.

James Lovelock, 1919-2022, inventor, independent scientist, author; creator of the concept of Gaia.
A rough ride to the future (2014), p. 68. He lived near Abbotsbury, Dorset, England.