“Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.”
Source: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 35 “Starglider Plus Eighty” (p. 190)
“Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.”
We the People interview (1996)
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“This is an artifact and that was a relic. This is alive in the now, whereas that merely remained.”
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
“The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons.”
Vittore Pisani
(1899–1990) Italian linguist
Il Macedonico, Paideia, Rivista Letteraria di informazione bibliografica, vol. 12, p. 250 (1957)
“Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous.”
Daniel Abraham
(1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 6 (p. 64)
Peter Farb
(1929–1980) American academic and writer
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: Millions of dollars have been expended to excavate and transport to museums the tools, weapons, and other artifacts of Indians—but scarcely a penny has been spent to save the living descendents of those who made them. Modern man is prompt to prevent cruelty to animals, and sometimes even to humans, but no counterpart of the Humane Society or the Sierra Club exists to prevent cruelty to entire cultures.<!-- p. 275
“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 188.
“Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.”
The Organized Mind (2014)