Artificial Quotes

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take it.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.