Thomas Browne Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: October 19, 1605 - October 19, 1682
Birthday: October 19
Death: October 19
... 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.
source: "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".
topic: Wise, Nature, Hands, Colossus
