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 COMTEAll 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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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The dead govern the living.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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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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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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