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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.

  Auguste Comte

  Math, Science

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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.

  Auguste Comte

  Mean, Research, Mathematics

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• Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

  Auguste Comte

  Analysis, Mathematical, Rational

  Auguste Comte (1858). “Positive Philosophy”, p.57

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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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  Community, Use, Treasure

  Auguste Comte “System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order”

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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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  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

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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 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 understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  "Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings".

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• Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Views, Space

  Auguste Comte (1853). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.208

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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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  Analysis, Aberration, Spirit

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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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  Moving, Mean, Order

  Auguste Comte (1853). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.138

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• After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

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  Views, May, Next

  Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.444

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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.

  Auguste Comte

  Law, History, Firsts

  "A General View of Positivism".

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