“Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?” MenWorldMayArtMadeMovingLife IsNatureAnimalWatchesSeeingSpringHuman LifeWheelsEnginesArtificialPrincipalLimbsArtificial Life Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” PeopleFeelsShouldMindLooksNatureWorryFlowerShould HaveComplexesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialInferiorsInferiorityInferiority Complex Author:Alan Kay
“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.” IfsWorldShouldYearsChildrenLastsAsksNatureWonderInfluenceSourceBoredomFairyAweArtificialAlienationAntidotePreoccupationSense Of WonderIndestructibleSilent SpringDisenchantmentAwe And WonderWonder Of The WorldWonder Of LifeWonder And MysteryChristening Book:The Sense of Wonder Source: The Sense of Wonder
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” ArtGodScienceNatureNaturalEnvironmentAll ThingsArtificialGod And NatureOne With NatureNature And ArtGod Nature Author:Thomas Browne
“"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."” WorldNatureArtificial Author:David W. Orr
“Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.” WorldLifeTwoFormScienceFallNatureNaturalMajorsFormerSubstancePlanesCharacteristicsDistinctionLatterCategoriesChemicalsArtificialMineralsSymmetrySpatial Author:Louis Pasteur