I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly…

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all…

— Lynne Truss

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…

— Anonymous

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…

— Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of…

— Sherry Turkle

The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for…

— Simon Conway Morris

To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have…

— Stephen Batchelor

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

— Paul Virilio

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely…

— Francis Crick

Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual…

— Herbert Simon

The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This…

— John Pawson

[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…

— Catherine Camus

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…

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Marshall McLuhan

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality…

— Bernard Berenson

I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to…

— Mario Bunge