Artificial Quotes
516 quotes by 440 authors
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This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides…
— Friedrich Wohler
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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
— Henri Bergson
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A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure…
— Thomas Browne
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From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by…
— Ron Paul
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Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not…
— Shelby Steele
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of…
— Billy Graham
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It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial…
— Prince Charles
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
— Mark Twain
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
— William Faulkner
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach…
— Jay Leno
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As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries…
— Rusty Schweickart
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be…
— John Stuart Mill
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Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain…
— Hermann Oberth
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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of…
— George Santayana
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A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
— Kevin Carson
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Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving…
— Namkhai Norbu
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