Artificial Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in…

— Thomas Hobbes

Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight…

— Rodney Brooks

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

— Ken Goldberg

Motion is the sign of life.

— Swami Vivekananda

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time,…

— Aldous Huxley

“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.”

— César Vallejo

“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric…

— Jane Bennett

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

— Anonymous

Life is like high-speed bike to keep running it until you are happy when walking, butit stops you are forced to think whether there…

— Mak_786

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.

— Marilyn Ferguson

If a thing moves, it lives.

— Twyla Tharp

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of…

— John Henry Holland