HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION.

August 28, 2014 at 7:34 PM · Literature, Science, Shakespeare

HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. In Henry IV Part I, at IIII, i, 12-21,

Owen Glendower says:

GLENDOWER

I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.

And Hotspur replies:

HOTSPUR

Why, so it would have done at the same season, if
your mother’s cat had but kittened, though yourself
had never been born.