Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
AUGUSTE COMTE
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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The dead govern the living.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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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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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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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 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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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