Artificial Quotes
516 quotes by 440 authors
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Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.
— Deepak Chopra
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and…
— Francesca Annis
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It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to…
— Jerry Mander
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The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism
— Ali Abunimah
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds…
— John Drinkwater
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
— Wendell Berry
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
— Peter Singer
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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can…
— Marvin Olasky
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There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling…
— Walter Jon Williams
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time,…
— Karolina Kurkova
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on…
— Arthur Lynch
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
— Margaret Mead
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The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig…
— George Iles
Who Wrote These Artificial Quotes
440 authors contributed a total of 516 Artificial Quotes, led by these top contributors: