| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8737 |
| QUOTATION: | All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Browne (16051682), British physician, author. Religio Medici, pt. 1, sct. 16 (1643).
A related idea was expressed earlier in the Enneads of Plotinus (bk. 3, ch. 2, sct. 16): The energy of nature is artificial, as when a dancer moves. |
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