The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
AUGUSTE COMTEReligion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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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 dead govern the living.
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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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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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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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