# Quote — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

> "I tell you again. True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent."

- Author: [Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md)
- Book: [Quicksilver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/quicksilver.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle#Book_One:_Quicksilver) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/quicksilver/i-tell-you

## More from this book

> "My father, Drake, educated me for one reason alone," Daniel finally says. "To assist him in his preparations for the Apocalypse. He reckoned it would occur in the year 1666—Number of the Beast and all that... When I came of age, I would be a man of the cloth, with the full university education, well versed in many dead classical languages, so that I could stand on the Cliffs of Dover and personally welcome Jesus Christ back to England in fluent Aramaic."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/quicksilver/my-father-drake.md)

> "It is a symbol of Mercury--patron of commerce--who has been worshipped in this cellar--and in this city--for a thousand years, by Bishops as well as business-men. It is a cult that adapts itself to any religion, just as easily as quicksilver adapts itself to any container."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/quicksilver/it-is-a-symbol.md)

> "I believe that binary arithemetickal engines will be of enormous significance"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/quicksilver/i-believe-that.md)