Quotes for All
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. Francis Crick
[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. Catherine Camus
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. Carl Sagan
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 … Read more
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. Arthur Oncken … Read more
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium. Alan Moore