In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
AUGUSTE COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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The dead govern the living.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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