Auguste Comte Quotes
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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
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C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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The dead govern the living.
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.
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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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 mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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