Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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