The long history of mankind is studded with convergences…

The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the…

— Simon Conway Morris

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

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

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

— Alan Moore

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