Best natural & artificial Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.”

Language Understanding Natural Computer Artificial Intelligence Artificial Documents

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.”

Art Two Natural Class Mankind Praise Divided Artificial Being Natural

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.”

Men Believe Made Earth Spiritual Science Individual I Believe Growth Natural Development Features Spiritual Growth Substitutes Artificial Spiritual Development Retarded

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.”

Want Desire Natural Artificial Multiplicity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.”

Natural Views Mankind Judging Artificial Standpoint

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!”

“People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.”

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Author:Timothy Leary

“If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.”

Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer

“The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.”

Men Way Country Law Courses Natural Objects Treated Confused Artificial Interfere Describing Altered Natural Law

Book:Elementary lessons in logic

Source: Elementary lessons in logic

“There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.”

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Book:The works

Source: The works

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

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Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.”

Thinking Long Social Natural Racism Lonely Artificial Social Systems Southerner

Author:Carson McCullers

“True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.”

Giving Natural Effort Grace Effects Gains Strive Impression Artificial

Book:Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem

Source: Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem

“Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).”

Art Poetry Artist Order Natural Modern Talent Poet Originals Realms Artificial Aspire Exploits

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.”

Source: A Selection of English Synonyms

“Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.”

May Has Beens Natural Greater Defined Artificial Politeness Propriety Good Nature

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.”

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Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

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