Five Proofs of the Existence of God Quotes

“Suppose you try to convince someone,
even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that
your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.”
― Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God

“Beginning students of physics quickly become acquainted with idealizations like the notion of a frictionless surface, and with the fact that laws like Newton’s law of gravitation strictly speaking describe the behavior of bodies only in the circumstance where no interfering forces are acting on them, a circumstance which never actually holds. Moreover, physicists do not in fact embrace a reg ularity as a law of nature only after many trials, after the fashion of popular presentations of inductive reasoning. Rather, they draw their conclusions from a few highly specialized experiments conducted under artificial conditions. This is exactly what we should expect if what science is concerned with is discovering the hidden natures of things. Actual experimental practice indicates that what physicists are really looking for are the powers a thing will manifest when interfer ing conditions are removed, and the fact that a few experiments, or even a single controlled experiment, are taken to establish the results in question indicates that these powers are taken to reflect a nature that is universal to things of that type.”
― Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God

“uncaused cause, or to use Aristotle’s famous expression, an Unmoved”
― Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God