The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts. Marshall McLuhan
Formal cause, as logos, incorporates the patterns of side-effects as part of essential nature: tetrads restore poesis and the making process to the study of artefacts. Marshall McLuhan
The search for alien artefacts in the Solar System should be a perfectly legitimate branch of science ('exoarchaeology'?). Unfortunately, it has been largely discredited by claims that such evidence has already been found - and has been deliberately suppressed by NASA! p. 97, Acknowledgements. Arthur C. Clarke
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium. Alan Moore
The artefacts of a genius are distinguished by rich human content, for which he forges new images and new techniques, creates new styles. He sees himself as a unique eruption in the desert of the banal. John Fowles
Abertillery museum has locally discovered artefacts dating as far back as the Bronze Age. Source: Internet