Emile Durkheim Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

  Emile Durkheim

  Science, Law, Enough

• For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Philosophy, Science

• Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

  Emile Durkheim

  Science, Society, Individual

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