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.
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.
Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
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