Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthe…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it m…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of th…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.

- Andre-Marie Ampere

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Ky…

- Andre-Marie Ampere

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest…

- Andre-Marie Ampere