Objection 1. It seems that in God there is not knowledge. For
knowledge is a habit; and habit does not belong to God, since it
is the mean between potentiality and act. Therefore knowledge is
not in God. Objection 2. Further, since science is about
conclusions, it is a kind of knowledge caused by something else
which is the knowledge of principles. But nothing is caused in
God; therefore science is not in God. I answer that, In God
there exists the most perfect knowledge. To prove this, we must
note that intelligent beings are distinguished from non-
intelligent beings in that the latter possess only their own
form; whereas the intelligent being is naturally adapted to have
also the form of some other thing; for the idea of the thing
known is in the knower. Hence it is manifest that the nature of
a non-intelligent being is more contracted and limited; whereas
the nature of intelligent beings has a greater amplitude and
extension; therefore the Philosopher says (De Anima iii) that
"the soul is in a sense all th