Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The human mind, by its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, and even radically opposed: viz., the theological method, the metaphysical, and the positive. Hence arises three philosophies, or general systems of conceptions on the aggregate of phenomena, each of which excludes the others. The first is the necessary point… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
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… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
