All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEAll 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.
AUGUSTE COMTEInduction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEIdeas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
AUGUSTE COMTEPositivism 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 COMTEMen are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEReligion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEHumanity is always made up of more dead than living.
AUGUSTE COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
AUGUSTE COMTEBut 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.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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