Auguste Comte Quotes

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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
It is only through Mathematics that we can thoroughly understand what true science is. Here alone can we find in the highest degree simplicity and severity of scientific law, and such abstraction as the human mind can attain. Any scientific education setting forth from any other point is faulty in its basis.

Auguste Comte
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte
The limitations of Mathematical science are not, then, in its nature. The limitations are in our intelligence: and by these we find the domain of the science remarkably restricted, in proportion as phenomena, in becoming special, become complex.

Auguste Comte
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Auguste Comte
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions—each branch of our knowledge—passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

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