"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the……" — Auguste Comte
"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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Auguste Comte
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26 Quotes by Auguste Comte
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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and…
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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:…
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based…
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry…
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But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought…
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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the…
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
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