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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Auguste Comte

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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Ground Kind Knowledge Observation Positivity Science Sound Theory
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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Carry Finding Mathematics Research Source
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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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
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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Enjoyment Form Language Preserve Reason Wealth

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

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