¶ Artificial
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Artificial:
“In my view there is no meaning to the word ‘artificial.’ Man can only do what nature permits him to do. Man does not invent anything. He makes discoveries of principle operative in nature and often finds ways of generalizing those principles and reapplying them in surprise directions. That is called invention. But he does not do anything artificial. Nature has to permit it, and if nature permits it, it is natural. There is naught which is unnatural.”
