 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...substance of God. We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but reverence and adore him on account of his dominion:...final causes is nothing else but Fate and Nature. . . . And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things, does certainly... | |
 | Bernard Grant Campbell - Science - 392 pages
...who in turn had been influenced by the Cambridge Platonist Henry More. Newton, indeed, remarked that "a god without dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing else but Fate and Nature." To that position certain of the eighteenth-century materialists would paradoxically proceed, dropping... | |
 | George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - History - 334 pages
...be Lord God .... We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections but we reverence...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature .... And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...material image. We have ideas of his attributes; we cannot know his substance. We know him by his works; we admire him for his perfections; "but we reverence...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature." So far, he concluded, he had explained the phenomena of the heavens by the force of gravity, but had... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...Newton phrased it, "We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All the diversity of natural things which we find, suited to different times and places, could arise from... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 300 pages
...be Lord God . . . We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections but we reverence...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature . . . And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 294 pages
...be Lord God . . . We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections but we reverence...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature . . . And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Mathematics - 1987 - 324 pages
...confer uniqueness upon individuals. In a completely deterministic universe, as Newton rightly observed, "blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly...and everywhere, could produce no variety of things" [2]. The universe and its parts, both physical and biological, have been compared often with machines.... | |
 | David Park - Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...all things. . . . We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. (Newton 1934, pp. 544-46) At the creation Cìod placed the stars far apart, hut of course there is... | |
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We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence,... 
