The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEMonotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological 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.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTETo understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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?
AUGUSTE COMTEMen 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 universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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.
AUGUSTE COMTEPositivism 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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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
AUGUSTE COMTEIn 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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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