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• In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of…
• The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,…
• All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…
• In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their…
• But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom…
• Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and…
• To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
• The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
• If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
• Know yourself to improve yourself.
• Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit…
• Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

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