And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the existence and attributes of God, portraying Him as the ultimate being with supreme intelligence and power.
In this quote, Isaac Newton reflects on the nature of God as the ultimate authority and perfect being who is characterized by properties such as intelligence, omnipotence, and omniscience. He argues that the concept of true lordship inherently leads to the understanding of God as eternal and infinite, ruling and knowing all that exists and is conceivable. Newton's viewpoint suggests a philosophical inquiry into the divine and its relationship to the universe, emphasizing the theological implications of God's supremacy and perfect nature.
In practice
During a discussion on the nature of divinity, one might say, 'As Newton indicates, God is supreme and perfect in all aspects.'
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. _x000D_ I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
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