All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
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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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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