Artefacts Quotes

• Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

  Francis Crick

  Synthesis, Unlikely, Protein

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• Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

  Paul Virilio

  Religious, Media, Information

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.

  Herbert Simon

  Sick, Design, Intellectual

  "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.

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• I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, World, Premium

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• The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

  John Pawson

  Omission, Perfection, Simplicity

  "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• [Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience, his way of thinking.

  Catherine Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

  Mario Bunge

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

  Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

  Special, Bait, Littles

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• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

  Bernard Berenson

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Law, Logos

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 127, 1988.

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• Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

  Carl Sagan

  Play, Nurse, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

  Sherry Turkle

  World, Links, Might

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• To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Integrity, Practice, Survival

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• Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

  Hilary Mantel

  Medical, Mental Illness, Notes

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