Thomas Browne Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  God, Art, Nature

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

• Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Philosophy, Philosophical

• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

• Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

• Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Lying, Book

• Rich with the spoils of nature.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Rich, Spoil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.19

• There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Space, Unnecessary

  Sir Thomas Browne (1736). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools”, p.17

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