Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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