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“The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.”

Humans Form Law Causes Media Structure Formal Logos Up To Date Artefacts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.”

Humans Long Use Values Social Technology Mankind Block Human History Decency Arrows Stumbling Human Values Social Systems Convergence Stumbling Blocks Artefacts

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.”

Years Children Persons Hands Young Mother Baby Balls Busy Phones Pity Cells Holding On Cell Phone Texting Best Year Triviality Artefacts

Author:Mario Bunge

“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.”

Different States Action Courses Social Company Situation Plans Policy Design Produce Materials Activity Intellectual Sick Patient Welfare Designer Engineers Remedy Social Welfare Artefacts

Author:Herbert Simon

“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 Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.”

Littles Given Special Theory Argument Critics Logical Given Up Relativity Bait Supposition Ploy Artefacts

Author:Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

“[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 say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience, his way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Mean Made Morality Models Sensations Concrete Abstraction Way Of Thinking Artefacts

Author:Catherine Camus

“Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.”

Ifs Today Religious Media Information Handle Artefacts

Author:Paul Virilio

“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 mental illness.”

Notes Ill Illness Medical Mental Illness Mentally Ill Artefacts

Author:Hilary Mantel

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

Thinking World Premium Virtual World Artefacts

Author:Alan Moore

“I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

Years Wells Looks Eye Lasts Walks Wonder Seeing Tree Flower Spring Garden Infinite Edges Yesterday Variety Colour Each Day Sixty Vitality Rivals Shrubs Artefacts

Author:Bernard Berenson

“To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival.”

Might Practice Integrity Elements Survival Tradition Aliens Preserves Dharma Artefacts

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.”

Has Beens Results Quality Achieve Objects Essentials Perfection Simplicity Details Defined Minimum Improving Components Reducing Minimalism Omission Subtraction Junction Artefacts

Author:John Pawson

“We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.”

World Made Might Asks Creation Computer Intimacy Who We Are Links Artefacts

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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 from times long gone.”

Way Long States Reason Play Roles Gone Reason Why No Reason Nurse Protected Nursery Pseudoscience Artefacts

Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.”

Needed Genuine Related Components Unlikely Protein Synthesis Incorporation Artefacts

Author:Francis Crick