Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of…

“I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of…

— David Bentley Hart

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

— Steven Sebring

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

— Will Oldham

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The…

— R. D. Laing

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by…

— John Searle

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly…

— Stanislav Grof

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

— George W. S. Trow

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a…

— Daniel Dennett

I am also really into religious artifacts.

— Kathleen Robertson

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite…

— Jeremy Irvine

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand,…

— Geoffrey O'Brien